[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 485 fix ipa-compat-manage and ipa-nis-manage

[Rob Crittenden]

Adam Young wrote:
> On 07/14/2010 03:40 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> The commands ipa-compat-manage and ipa-nis-manage didn't really work 
>> properly. I think some backend changes caused at least some of the 
>> problems. I fixed a few errors causing backtraces as well as some 
>> corner cases.
>>
>> Enabling nis added a new compat location. So disabling compat would 
>> fail because it wasn't handling this new nis location.
>>
>> I also ran pylint against both and fixed a few problems/warnings it 
>> raised.
>>
>> rob
>>
>>
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> NACK:
> 
> [root at ipa ~]# ipa-compat-manage enable
> Directory Manager password:
> 
> Enabling plugin
> This setting will not take effect until you restart Directory Server.
> 
> [root at ipa ~]# ipa-nis-manage enable
> Directory Manager password:
> 
> Enabling plugin
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/ipa-nis-manage", line 201, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main())
>   File "/usr/sbin/ipa-nis-manage", line 150, in main
>     conn.update_entry(nis_config_dn, mod, normalize=False)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ipalib/encoder.py", line 188, 
> in new_f
>     return f(*new_args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ipaserver/plugins/ldap2.py", 
> line 687, in update_entry
>     raise errors.EmptyModlist()
> ipalib.errors.EmptyModlist: no modifications to be performed

The problem was we ship with the plugin enabled and we were trying to do 
an LDAP mod to enable it, so literally nothing to do.

I also made ipa-nis-manage require that the schema compat plugin already 
be enabled.

rob
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