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Bug 1199524

Summary: [RFE] Add support for system accounts
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Martin Kosek <mkosek>
Component: ipaAssignee: IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Namita Soman <nsoman>
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Version: 7.0CC: anelson, dpal, orion, pasik, pvoborni, rcritten
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Description Martin Kosek 2015-03-06 14:55:11 UTC 
This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2801

In time we have had requests to create system accounts so that some legacy services can bind to the directory with a simple username/password to perform some operations. For example password sync services from an out of Realm machine.

There are 2 types of system accounts we want to cover:
* POSIX system accounts, with UID and GID. This can cover shared accounts for services that is used on different machines and thus cannot use standard services. In future, we should be able to '''request certificates''' for these accounts.
* Simple, non-POSIX system accounts only for LDAP only operations (`simpleSecurityObject`).

Password policy should not apply for either of them.
Comment 1 Martin Kosek 2015-03-06 14:55:48 UTC 
*** Bug 1057836 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Dmitri Pal 2019-03-14 18:15:54 UTC 
Hello,

This seems to be a valid RFE but not with a high priority.
There is a workaround to use user accounts instead.
This bug will be closed as DEFERRED. Upstream ticket at this time will continue to be open.

Thanks
Dmitri