[Freeipa-devel] Replace stageuser-add --from-delete with user-undel --to-staged

[Martin Basti]

On 23/07/15 14:43, Martin Basti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to fix #5145 and I partially succeeded.
>
> However, I cannot fix this part of ticket, where user is prompted to 
> write name and surname.
>
> $ ipa stageuser-add tuser --from-delete
> First name: this will be ignored
> Last name: this will be also ignored
> ------------------------
> Added stage user "tuser"
> ------------------------
>
> As the first name and last name are mandatory attributes of 
> stageuser-add command, but they are not needed by when the 
> --from-delete option is used.
> I would like to ask how to fix this issue, IMO this will be huge hack 
> in internal API. Or should we just document this bug as known issue 
> (thierry wrote that this is not use case that should be used often)?
>
> The best solution would be separate command, but this idea was 
> rejected in thread "[Freeipa-devel] User life cycle: question 
> regarding the design"
>
> Regards
> Martin^2
>
Hello,

as was mentioned before, we have issue with current internal API and the 
stageuser-add --from-delete command.

We discussed this today, and we did not find a nice way how to fix it, 
so we propose this (which is IMO the best solution):

* stageuser-add --from-delete should be deprecated
* create new option for user-undel: used-undel --to-staged  (or create 
new command) that will handle moving deleted users to staged area as 
--from-delete did.

Instead of stageuser-add and option --from-delete, which work totally 
different, the command user-undel does similar operation than stage-user 
--from-delete, it just uses different container.

We need to do this in 4.2.1 to affect as least as possible users.

If you have any objections, please speak/write :)
Martin^2

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Martin Basti