[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0017] Improve error message in ipa-replica-manage

[Tomas Babej]

On 10/02/2012 03:55 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Tomas Babej wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When executing ipa-replica-manage connect to an unknown or irrelevant
>> master, we now print a sensible error message informing the user
>> about this possiblity as well.
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3105
>>
>> Tomas
>
> I put a whole bunch of code into a try/except and this may be catching 
> errors in unexpected ways.
>
> I'm not entirely sure right now what we should do, but looking at the 
> code in the try:
>
> repl1.conn.getEntry(master1_dn, ldap.SCOPE_BASE)
> repl1.conn.getEntry(master2_dn, ldap.SCOPE_BASE)
>
> We take in replica1 and replica1 as arguments (the default for 
> replica1 is the current host).
>
> If either of these raise a NotFound it means there there is no master 
> of that name. Does that mean that the master was deleted? Well, 
> clearly not.
>
> A lot has changed since I did this, I may have been relying on a 
> side-effect, or just hadn't tested well-enough.
>
> I wonder if we need that message at all. Is "foo" is not an IPA server 
> good enough? It still might be confusing if someone didn't know that 
> "foo" was deleted and it was still running. We could probably verify 
> that it is at least an IPA server by doing similar checking in the 
> client, it all depends on how far we want to take it.
>
> rob

I modified the patch. Now if the NotFound error is encountered, we try 
to investigate whether we're trying to connect to an IPA server at all. 
Please see if you have any suggestions.

Tomas


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