[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] don't allow special groups to be removed

Karl MacMillan kmacmill at redhat.com
Fri Nov 30 19:48:10 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 12:53 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> This patch won't allow the XML-RPC interface to remove the admins or 
> editors groups nor the configured group that is the default group for 
> new users.
> 

Pushed.

> I was originally going to do an ACI for this but thought that returning 
> a useful error message was better.
> 

We need both - because users can always directly access the DS there is
no security value to checks in the xml-rpc layer. They are useful for
error reporting, consistency, etc., but not for security.

Karl




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