[Freeipa-users] Migration mode fun and confusion

[Janelle]

On 3/31/15 6:49 AM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 03/31/2015 09:38 AM, Janelle wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Is this a feature or a bug?
>>
>> Migration mode - works fine the first time. However, if you need to 
>> run it a second time because someone added either new users or groups 
>> to your LDAP config and you want to bring those over, if you re-run 
>> migration, it indeed brings all the new users over, but NOT their 
>> secondary groups, only primary. And even if you have overwrite of the 
>> GID option set.
>>
>> Would this be expected for some reason that I may be missing, or is 
>> it a bug?
>>
>> Thank you
>> ~J
>>
> Let be know if I get you right.
That's it exactly.
Ok - Bug.
:-)

>
> Setup:
> - Old LDAP server
> - IPA
>
> Users are migrated from LDAP to IPA using migrate-ds.
> Everything works as expected
> Now you add users to LDAP and put them into some groups (that were 
> already been migrated the first time, right?)
> You run migrate-ds again and the new users are migrated but group 
> membership is lost.
>
> Is this the scenario?
> If yes, looks like a bug.
>
>