[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 851 add password indicator

[Martin Kosek]

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 18:26 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> We used to calculate has_keytab based on whether krblastpwdchange was 
> set. We did this because you can't see whether a krbPrincipalKey is set.
> 
> We had a need to see whether a password was set on hosts. What I did was 
> create a new ACI that allows search on krbPrincpalKey and userPassword. 
> This means you can search for attribute existence and gives us a better 
> picture of what entries have.
> 
> This adds a new fake attribute, has_password. I've added has_password 
> and has_keytab to user objects as well so you can see whether a password 
> is set on a user (and may be useful during migration).
> 
> rob

This all seems to work fine for hosts. With user object, I just wonder
if it is possible to detect if user has a keytab, but I guess not. I
generated a keytab for user but I have not seen some valuable difference
in user LDAP data.

This way, has_keytab seems to always have the same value as has_password
even though no keytab has been generated. Wouldn't has_keytab=True
confuse users?

Martin