[Freeipa-users] inserting users via java

[Dmitri Pal]

On 03/23/2015 05:56 PM, Timothy Worman wrote:
> I have an existing web app built with java/WebObjects that currently handles some user/groups tasks with our current directory server (Open Directory). We are investigating a move to FreeIPA for our directory services.
>
> Just in mucking around, I’ve found that if I try to insert a new user (inetOrgPerson) into into IPA’s implementation, the new user does not inherit all the object classes it should. It only inherits the ones leading to inetOrgPerson. This does result in a successful inetOrgPerson insertion, but that user record does not show up in the Web GUI management tools.
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> Usually, I have focused on inetOrgPerson because that is where the bulk of the info about a user lives.
>
> We have a SQL database that contains people in our organization (used by other services), so, we need to be able to leverage that and push users into IPA when appropriate and we have an existing app to do this.
>
> Tim W
>
You have several options:
1) Call ipa CLI from your application - this is possible right now (but 
not quite nice)
2) Call ipa JSON API from your application - this is not supported but 
possible. We use python API. You can do it in Java but it will be a lot 
of work.
3) Use more elaborate LDAP add commands (with all the object classes 
needed for users). Hard, but doable.
4) Help us with testing the upcoming feature 
http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/User_Life-Cycle_Management that would 
allow creating users via simple ldap command in a staging area and them 
moving them to normal users area with automatic creation of missing 
attributes by means of a cron job.

I would vote for 1) as a temp solution and 4) as a longer term one.

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.