[Freeipa-devel] inactivating yourself

David O'Brien david.obrien at redhat.com
Mon Dec 3 08:41:57 UTC 2007


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Came across and intriguing problem when working on group inactivation.
> 
> With group inactivation you pick a group, select inactive and update it.
> This causes all group members, including recursively all groups, to be
> marked inactive.
> 
> So what should we do if the current user happens to be a member of that
> group (or subgroup)?
> 
> What currently happens is IPA throws up because once the user is
> inactivated their credentials are no longer accepted by FDS.
> 
> So should we:
> 
> 1. Let things go ahead and blow up (i.e. change nothing)
> 2. Do not let them deactivate anything they are a part of
> 3. Do all the deactivation except for their record
> 4. Something else
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> I'm leaning towards #2 myself.
> 
> rob
> 

did you get an answer to this?

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David O'Brien <mailto:daobrien at redhat.com>
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