[Freeipa-users] Provision user accounts & groups from external IM

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 14:34 +0200, Willem Bos wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> 
> I did some experimenting with the example at
> http://adam.younglogic.com/2010/07/talking-to-freeipa-json-web-api-via-curl/ and am now able to create a user using the following as input to curl (-d @user_add.json) :
> 
> 
> {
>   "method":"user_add",
>   "params":[
>     [],
>     {
>       "uid":"test",
>       "givenname":"test",
>       "sn":"test",
>       "userpassword":"test"
>     }
>   ]
> }
> 
> 
> I'm left with two questions :
> - Is it possible to use a hashed password (as stored in the 'meta-IM')
> as a value for userpassword? And if so, will this propagate to the
> created Kerberos principal?

Nope, we need the clear text in order to generate the krb5 keys.

> - After creation, I'm forced to change the password when running
> `kinit test`. Is it possible to reset prevent the forced password
> change?

Yes, see: http://www.freeipa.org/page/PasswordSynchronization

> As a test, I tried to set the '-needchange' attribute using kadmin but
> that returned "... Insufficient access while modifying..."

This is not controlled by kadmin.
> 
> I grepped the mailing list archives / API.txt / source code / etc. for
> clues but without success...

See above, it is really easy to create an agent with the right
permissions.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York