[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0089 Clarify trust-add help regarding multiple runs against the same domain

Martin Kosek mkosek at redhat.com
Fri Nov 2 15:39:42 UTC 2012


On 11/02/2012 01:19 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Martin Kosek wrote:
>> On 10/17/2012 12:52 PM, Sumit Bose wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 06:05:02PM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> this patch originated from off-list discussion regarding multiple runs
>>>> of ipa trust-add against the same domain.
>>>>
>>>> Since trust-add re-establishes the trust every time it is run and all
>>>> the other information fetched from the remote domain controller stays
>>>> the same, it can be run multiple times. The only change would occur is
>>>> update of trust relationship credentials -- they are supposed to be
>>>> updated periodically by underlying infrastructure anyway.
>>>>
>>>> So the patch adds some clarity to the help and changes summary message
>>>> when trust was re-established instead of created.
>>>> -- 
>>>> / Alexander Bokovoy
>>>
>>> ACK
>>>
>>> Btw, another useful feature of allowing to run trust-add multiple times
>>> is to re-established the trust if it was deleted only on one side, AD or
>>> IPA. Having a separate command for this would make no sense because it
>>> would be basically be an alias to trust-add.
>>>
>>> bye,
>>> Sumit
>>>
>>
>> I am still a bit worried about our consistency with IPA command help
>> indentation. You have it indented with trust-add command:
>>
>> # ipa help trust-add
>> Purpose: Add new trust to use.
>>
>>    This command establishes trust relationship to another domain
>>    which becomes 'trusted'. As result, users of the trusted domain
>>    may access resources of this domain.
>> ...
> A fix is attached.
> 

ACK. Pushed to master, ipa-3-0.

Btw. I did not see any ticket linked to this patch. If there is any, please
feel free to close it.

Martin




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