[Freeipa-devel] inactivating yourself

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Mon Dec 3 15:51:32 UTC 2007


David O'Brien wrote:
> 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?
> 

No, it's still up in the air.

rob
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