[Freeipa-users] Web UI plugins or other extensions

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 18:50:11 UTC 2015


On 02/25/2015 01:22 PM, Hugh wrote:
> On 2/25/2015 11:02 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>> But let us step back and ask the question why do you need to create the
>> users you sync manually first?
>> The users in a specific OU will be synced anyways without you manually
>> creating them in IPA.
>> So this is unclear why the whole thing is actually needed.
> What we'd like to do is have admins create users in IPA via the web
> interface (or CLI, if they're so inclined) and add them to an IPA group
> then have those users synched over to our AD environment, so those users
> can log into their Windows workstations. We'd like to avoid duplicate or
> unnecessary effort in terms of creating users. More steps to a process =
> more likelihood of mistakes.
>
> We'd like to create the users in IPA so that we're consistent in
> everyone using the IPA web interface to manage their user accounts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hugh
>
Will all users created via IPA interface synched to AD?
Is there any harm to make all users be created with the attributes 
mentioned earlier in this thread?

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.




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