[Freeipa-devel] Stageuser API

[Christian Heimes]

On 2017-01-16 15:52, David Kupka wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I've noticed that our API for stageuser is missing some commands that
> user has (stageuser-{add,remove}-{principal,cert}). I was wondering if
> there is reason for it but after asking some fellows developers it seems
> that there's none.
> 
> I understand the stageuser area as a place where user entry can be
> created and amended during the hiring process in organization, example:
> 
> 1. HR creates the entry with just basic informations (givenname,
> surname, manager)
> 2. IT assigns basic account information (uid, gid)
> 3. based on to-be-employee manager's request IT adds additional group
> membership (memberOf)
> 4. based on to-be-employee request IT adds login alias (krbPrincipalName)
> 5. Security Officer adds certificate from Smart Card assigned to the
> to-be-employee
> 6. HR adds extra information to the account (address, marital status, ...)
> 7. Facilities update work place related information (seat number, phone
> number, ...)
> 8. At the first day IT activates the user account.
> 
> Considering this work flow I think it might be useful to have the same
> API for stageuser as for the user.
> 
> Does the example work flow make sense?
> Should we provide the same set of commands for user and stageuser?

I see one potential issue in your proposal. A stage user does not
reserve its user name. The unique index on uid excludes the staging user
and deleted user branch. Therefore it is possible to create a user with
the same login name as a staging user.

We either have to ensure that this name clash does not cause any trouble
with certificates or we have to enforce uniqueness of uid across the
whole tree. For FreeIPA it's probably fine because we compare certs
bytes. Third party applications parse the cert subject instead and use
the subject to identify a user.

Christian

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