[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 78] Ticket #2979 - prevent last admin from being disabled

Petr Viktorin pviktori at redhat.com
Mon Sep 3 16:00:21 UTC 2012


On 09/03/2012 04:41 PM, John Dennis wrote:
> On 09/03/2012 07:53 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> On 08/26/2012 07:19 PM, John Dennis wrote:
>>> On 08/20/2012 01:37 PM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>>> (Sorry if you're getting this twice; I didn't send it to the list)
>>>>
>>>> On 08/16/2012 08:38 PM, John Dennis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking to carve out IT costs?
>>>>> www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/
>>>>>
>>>>> freeipa-jdennis-0078-Ticket-2979-prevent-last-admin-from-being-disabled.patch
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> >From c47109c63530e188db76986fdda48c76bf681d10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
>>>>> 2001
>>>>> From: John Dennis<jdennis at redhat.com>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:28:44 -0400
>>>>> Subject: [PATCH 78] Ticket #2979 - prevent last admin from being
>>>>> disabled
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>>>>>
>>>>> We prevent the last member of the admin group from being deleted. The
>>>>> same check needs to be performed when disabling a user.
>>>>>
>>>>> Moved the code in del_user to a common subroutine and call it from
>>>>> both user_del and user_disable. Note, unlike user_del user_disable
>>>>> does not have a 'pre' callback therefore the check function is called
>>>>> in user_disable's execute routine.
>>>>
>>>> This should also prevent disabling all admins if there's more than one:
>>>>
>>>> # ipa user-add admin2 --first=a --last=b
>>>> -------------------
>>>> Added user "admin2"
>>>> -------------------
>>>> ...
>>>> # ipa group-add-member admins --user=admin2
>>>> -------------------------
>>>> Number of members added 1
>>>> -------------------------
>>>> # ipa user-disable admin2
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> Disabled user account "admin2"
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> # ipa user-disable admin
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> Disabled user account "admin"
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> # ipa ping
>>>> ipa: ERROR: Server is unwilling to perform: Account inactivated.
>>>> Contact
>>>> system administrator.
>>>>
>>>> Also with one enabled and one disabled admin, it shouldn't be possible
>>>> to delete the enabled one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please add some tests; you can extend the ones added in commit f8e7b51.
>>>
>>> Good catch with respect to disabled users, thank you.
>>>
>>> Reworked patch attached, see patch comments.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Works well now, just the error message is incorrect: it mentions only
>> deleting, not disabling.
>>
>> $ ipa user-disable admin
>> ipa: ERROR: admin cannot be deleted because it is the last member of
>> group admins
>
> Updated the error message to say
>
> "... cannot be deleted or disabled because ..."
>
>

ACK.
Please push John's patch 81 before this one; that way it applies cleanly.

-- 
Petr³




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