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Bug 1334619 - Attempt to fix capitalization fails with ipa: ERROR: Type or value exists:
Summary: Attempt to fix capitalization fails with ipa: ERROR: Type or value exists:
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ipa
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: IPA Maintainers
QA Contact: Kaleem
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1692811
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-10 07:36 UTC by Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
Modified: 2019-08-29 15:21 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ipa-4.6.5-1.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1692811 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:09:02 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2241 0 None None None 2019-08-06 13:09:26 UTC

Description Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2016-05-10 07:36:43 UTC 
Description of problem:

When admin happens to enter capitalization of user's attributes wrong, it it cumbersome to fix it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ipa-server-4.2.0-15.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:

Deterministic.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. kinit admin
2. ipa user-add david --first=david --last=smith
3. echo Oops, the names should have caps.
4. ipa user-mod david --first=David --last=Smith

Actual results:

ipa: ERROR: Type or value exists: 

Note that it says "Type or value exists:" with colon at the end like it tried to tell us something more but nothing more is output.

Expected results:

---------------------
Modified user "david"
---------------------
  User login: david
  First name: David
  Last name: Smith
  Home directory: /home/david
  Login shell: /bin/sh
  Email address: david
  UID: 1056000007
  GID: 1056000007
  Account disabled: False
  Password: False
  Member of groups: ipausers
  Kerberos keys available: False

Additional info:

It is possible to change the names to something else and then back to David and Smith, but it is not intuitive.
Comment 2 Petr Vobornik 2016-05-10 14:02:13 UTC 
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5879
Comment 6 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2019-03-28 14:43:04 UTC 
Already backported to ipa-4-6:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/3cf2490ac45bd4b9028836a3daa60ccec7443682
Fixed in 4.6.5
IdM in RHEL 7.7 was rebased to 4.6.5, hence setting the BZ as MODIFIED, Fixed in 4.6.5

And ipa-4-7:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/9e7e9c1014c10f838b341a45436aba0840ad5b07
Fixed in 4.7.2
Comment 8 Nikhil Dehadrai 2019-06-13 08:26:30 UTC 
ipa-server-4.6.5-9.el7.x86_64

Verified the bug on the basis of following observations:

[root@qe-blade-09 ~]# rpm -q ipa-server
ipa-server-4.6.5-9.el7.x86_64
[root@qe-blade-09 ~]# kinit admin
Password for admin: 
[root@qe-blade-09 ~]# ipa user-add david --first=david --last=smith
------------------
Added user "david"
------------------
  User login: david
  First name: david
  Last name: smith
  Full name: david smith
  Display name: david smith
  Initials: ds
  Home directory: /home/david
  GECOS: david smith
  Login shell: /bin/sh
  Principal name: david
  Principal alias: david
  Email address: david
  UID: 1006400001
  GID: 1006400001
  Password: False
  Member of groups: ipausers
  Kerberos keys available: False
[root@qe-blade-09 ~]# ipa user-mod david --first=David --last=Smith
---------------------
Modified user "david"
---------------------
  User login: david
  First name: David
  Last name: Smith
  Home directory: /home/david
  Login shell: /bin/sh
  Principal name: david
  Principal alias: david
  Email address: david
  UID: 1006400001
  GID: 1006400001
  Account disabled: False
  Password: False
  Member of groups: ipausers
  Kerberos keys available: False
[root@qe-blade-09 ~]# ipa user-mod david --first=david --last=smith
---------------------
Modified user "david"
---------------------
  User login: david
  First name: david
  Last name: smith
  Home directory: /home/david
  Login shell: /bin/sh
  Principal name: david
  Principal alias: david
  Email address: david
  UID: 1006400001
  GID: 1006400001
  Account disabled: False
  Password: False
  Member of groups: ipausers
  Kerberos keys available: False


Since no error message is observed as mentioned in original bug, marking the status of bug to 'VERIFIED'
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 13:09:02 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.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2241
Comment 11 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2019-08-29 08:11:31 UTC 
Test added upstream in  test_integration/test_commands.py::TestIPACommand::()::test_user_mod_change_capitalization_issue5879
Fixed upstream
master:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/b24359cafae6bcc37b6281b7fb431eae47e0c9cf
Comment 12 François Cami 2019-08-29 15:21:58 UTC 
Fixed upstream
ipa-4-8:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/24b2d5893696d1c129c25c9616a42acfbeab8eba
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