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Description of problem:
Users are quite certain not to come up with random (high-entropy) passwords, let alone with high-entropy one time passwords. IMHO IPA should at least offer to generate OTPs for host enrollment in the UI, or if there are no backward-compatibility concerns, use generation as a default method with custom OTPs as a user-requested fallback

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-server-3.0.0-37.el6.x86_64 / RHEL 6.5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add a host in the Web UI
2. set an Enrollment OTP for the host
3.

Actual results:
user is requested to type and retype the password

Expected results:
user should be offered with generated OTP by default

Additional info:

It is possible to request a random one-time password when adding a host in the CLI, so I guess it should be possible in the UI as well.

Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4602

This Bugzilla is a feature request and as such is not a good fit for IdM in RHEL-6 where IdM server is only being stabilized and new functionality is not being added.

I am thus moving the Bugzilla to RHEL-7.x series. When/if the RFE is implemented and you are interested in having it backported to IdM in RHEL-6, please clone a Bugzilla to RHEL-6 and provide business justification so that we can re-consider.

Fixed upstream
master:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/3b37e29ac6e918027b06e574c2c793f6c521100c

this bz was part of rebase

Created attachment 1202323 [details]
Verified on ipa-server-4.4.0-12.el7.x86_64

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.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2404.html