[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Update of update

[Kevin McCarthy]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Pull some of the logic into the server-side. Change update_user to take a 
> User object and do the conversion to a dict internally instead.
>
> Don't allow the User object to use __setattr__ except for dn and data. We 
> want them to use setValue() or setValues() so the cidict is used.
>
> The ipa-usermod tool is updated to use the new API.

Rob and I discussed this over IRC.  This introduces a subtle change in
how updates work - old unchanged values will end up overwriting a value
someone else may have updated "in the middle".

I'm going to take a different shot at this and post a patch for this.

-Kevin

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