[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0213] support multiple uid values in slapi-nis users map

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
>On (08/08/16 11:35), Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Martin Basti wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08.08.2016 09:34, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>> > When SSSD resolves AD users on behalf of slapi-nis, it can accept any
>>> > user identifier, including user principal name (UPN) which may be
>>> > different than the canonical user name which SSSD returns.
>>> >
>>> > As result, the entry created by slapi-nis will be using canonical user
>>> > name but the filter for search will refer to the original (aliased)
>>> > name. The search will not match the newly created entry.
>>> >
>>> > The issue is fixed  in slapi-nis-0.56.1 by returning two values for
>>> > 'uid' attribute: the canonical one and the aliased one. This way the
>>> > search will match.
>>> >
>>> > Standard LDAP schema allows multiple values for 'uid' attribute. We
>>> > actually use the same trick for 'cn' attribute in the groups map
>>> > already.
>>> >
>>> > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6138
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> should we bump requires to slapi-nis-0.56.1 in freeipa.spec?
>>No, this is not required. In Fedora we'll submit a combined update --
>>I've built slapi-nis-0.56.1-1 packages for f24, f25, and rawhide already
>>but did not submit a Bodhi request.
>>
>How is combined updated related to requires to slapi-nis-0.56.1?
>It will not prevent tu update freeipa without new slapi-nis.
>
>e.g.
>  dnf update freeipa-server.
An update file in FreeIPA that is proposed by this patch does not affect
operation of the older slapi-nis deployment once update is applied.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy