[Freeipa-users] 4202 error no modifications can be performed

[Adam Young]

On 05/23/2011 10:59 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> It needs to be disabled then as it locks up the gui and its then stuffed....
>
> regards
> ________________________________________
> From: Rob Crittenden [rcritten at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 2:27 p.m.
> To: Steven Jones
> Cc: dpal at redhat.com; Adam Young; freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] 4202 error no modifications can be performed
>
> Steven Jones wrote:
>> I just did another user and it happens when I populate teh user's manager field....I hit update, it goes blank and then I cant revert or save.
> Manager is broken in 6.1, or at best, non-intuitive. It wants a dn and
> not a login. We've fixed this upstream so it does the translation
> automatically but that is not in 6.1. I'm not sure why this would blow
> up the UI though.
>
> rob
You can probably force it back to nothing in the CLI.  ipa user-mod 
<uid> --manager <manager dn>