Bug 744074

Summary: [ipa webui] global password policy should not be able to be deleted
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Yi Zhang <yzhang>
Component: ipaAssignee: Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.2CC: dpal, jgalipea, mkosek, nsoman
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Fixed In Version: ipa-2.1.3-1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: Web UI allows user to delete a global Password Policy Consequence: If the policy is deleted, any attempt to add a user with Kerberos password will fail. Neither CLI nor Web UI could be used to add the policy back. Fix: Forbid deleting global Password Policy in IPA server Result: An error is reported when user tries to remove global Password Policy both in Web UI and CLI
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Description Yi Zhang 2011-10-06 22:04:37 UTC
Description of problem:
User with admin rights can delete global password policy from webui.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.1.1 (Sept 21 build day)


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install ipa server 
2. kinit as "admin" and bring up firefox, go to https://<ipaserver>
3. go to: "Policy" tab -> Password Policy sub menu -> select "Global Password" -> click "delete" to delete it
  
Actual results:
global password policy being deleted

Expected results:
global password can not be deleted even by admin

Additional info:
1. after global password policy being deleted, there is no way to add such policy since current WebUI does not offer "global" as a choice in "Add Password Policy" dialog

2. after the global password policy being deleted, cli: "ipa pwpolicy-show" will report error: password policy not found

3. after the global password policy being deleted, newly created user can not get kerberos ticket with initial password. IPA reports: user not found.

4. I didn't try this in latest build, I will post my test result once I updated my testing environment.

Comment 2 Dmitri Pal 2011-10-07 03:46:06 UTC
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1936

Comment 6 Martin Kosek 2011-10-31 20:23:38 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Cause: Web UI allows user to delete a global Password Policy
Consequence: If the policy is deleted, any attempt to add a user with Kerberos password will fail. Neither CLI nor Web UI could be used to add the policy back.
Fix: Forbid deleting global Password Policy in IPA server
Result: An error is reported when user tries to remove global Password Policy both in Web UI and CLI

Comment 7 Namita Soman 2011-11-05 21:06:18 UTC
An Operations error is thrown:
invalid 'group': Gettext('cannot delete global password policy', domain='ipa', localedir=None)

Could be a better formatted error.

Verified using ipa-server-2.1.3-8.el6.x86_64

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 18:42:22 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1533.html