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

[Adam Young]

On 07/14/2010 05:44 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> 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


ACK