[Freeipa-devel] [Fwd: [PATCH] 582 allow rdn changes]

[Rob Crittenden]

Dmitri Pal wrote:
> Do we plan/need to have a more convenient format? The setattr seems not
> intuitive.
> I seems it should be something like:
> ipa user-mod --login=newlogin oldlogin
>
> But I understand it will affect a lot of CLIs if we do it right for all
> renames.
> Well... may be exactly because of that we should do it sooner rather
> than later.
> Thoughts?

I'm open to suggestions. I asked informally about this morning but we 
got side-tracked on another discussion and I never did get an answer 
whether this would be sufficient.

It's easy enough to add this in as an option. The thing is we want this 
to be a very rare occurrence so making them look for how to do this 
isn't necessarily a bad thing.

rob

>
> Thanks
> Dmitri
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 582 allow rdn changes
> Date: 	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:57:17 -0400
> From: 	Rob Crittenden<rcritten at redhat.com>
> To: 	freeipa-devel<freeipa-devel at redhat.com>
>
>
>
> Allow RDN changes for users, groups, rolegroups and taskgroups.
>
> To do a change right now you have to perform a setattr like:
>
> ipa user-mod --setattr uid=newuser olduser
>
> The RDN change is performed before the rest of the mods. If the RDN
> change is the only change done then the EmptyModlist that update_entry()
> throws is ignored.
>
> ticket 323
>
> rob
>
>
>