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Bug 1376041

Summary: It is possible to delete a tombstone entry from a client connection
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Simon Pichugin <spichugi>
Component: 389-ds-baseAssignee: Noriko Hosoi <nhosoi>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Viktor Ashirov <vashirov>
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Version: 7.3CC: lkrispen, nkinder, rmeggins
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Last Closed: 2017-04-07 09:16:43 UTC Type: Bug
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Reproducer written in Python and pytest none

Description Simon Pichugin 2016-09-14 13:48:46 UTC
Created attachment 1200826 [details]
Reproducer written in Python and pytest

Description of problem:
According to the info provided by Ludwig and the information from the documentation (Administration Guide - 11.12. MANAGING DELETED ENTRIES WITH REPLICATION), it should not be possible to delete a tombstone entry from a client connection. Even binding as Directory Manager.
Now it is possible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
389-ds-base-1.3.5.10-10.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install an instance of RHDS
2. Enable USN plugin
3. Restart the server
4. Add a user
5. Delete the user
6. Find out the tombstone entry DN for the user:
ldapsearch -D "cn=directory manager" -w Secret123 -b "dc=example,dc=com" "(&(objectClass=nstombstone)(cn=testuser))"
7. Try to delete this entry while binding as Directory Manager

Actual results:
It shouldn't be possible

Expected results:
It is possible to delete the tombstone entry

Additional info:
I've written a Python reproducer. Please, find it in the attachment.

Comment 2 Ludwig 2017-04-07 09:16:43 UTC
This bug was logged because of unclear communication from DEV to QE.

when the patch was implemented to allow the deletion of a tombstone in 7.3 to be compatible to 6.x I said that the behaviour is incorrect, but we should not remove the possibility to directly remove tombstones by external operations. AN admin might want/have to do this.

Will close as not a bug