#355 winsync should not delete entry that appears to be out of scope
Closed: wontfix None Opened 11 years ago by rmeggins.

see https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2688 for the gory details

Instead of deleting, I think we should just log a warning like

"Could not sync the AD entry %s with the DS entry %s, even though they have the same user id (or group id) %s, because the AD entry is out of scope %s of the windows sync agreement"

deleting perfectly good users is bad


There are some other considerations here:
steps:
1) make a ds user and an ad user that are in sync - verify ad changes go to ds and vice versa
2) move the ad user out of scope of the sync agreement
3) verify that sync is not working - verify ad changes don't go to ds and vice versa
4) delete the ad user - the ds user is also deleted

Before the fix for ticket 355, moving the AD entry out of scope would delete the DS entry - but that was problematic - if you mis-configured your sync agreement, all of your DS users could be accidentally deleted

This seems counter-intuitive - the entries are not in sync, yet the deletion is synced. This is because we do not look at the scope of the AD tombstone entry prior to deletion, and test it using is_subject_of_agreement_remote(e,prp->agmt)

We could look at the AD tombstone to see if was in scope - the AD tombstone (with 2008 anyway) provides the attribute "lastknownparent":
{{{
(gdb) p e->e_attrs->a_next->a_next->a_next->a_next->a_next
$27 = {a_type = 0x7fffc0056bb0 "lastknownparent", a_present_values = {
va = 0x7fffc00563b0}, a_flags = 4, a_plugin = 0x6c85a0,
a_deleted_values = {va = 0x0}, a_listtofree = 0x0, a_next = 0x7fffc0059450,
a_deletioncsn = 0x0, a_mr_eq_plugin = 0x690240, a_mr_ord_plugin = 0x0,
a_mr_sub_plugin = 0x0}
(gdb) p
e->e_attrs->a_next->a_next->a_next->a_next->a_next->a_present_values.va[0]
$28 = {bv = {bv_len = 36,
bv_val = 0x7fffc0067470 "CN=deletedusers,DC=testdomain,DC=com"},
v_csnset = 0x0, v_flags = 0}
}}}
So, in this case, if we used lastknownparent, we would see that the entry was outside of the scope of the agreement (the sync subtree is cn=testusers,dc=testdomain,dc=com).

Also note:
1) When we sync deletes from DS to AD, we do check to see if the entry is within the sync scope.
2) When we move a DS entry out of scope, we still delete the corresponding AD entry - we will have to change this too

Linked to Bugzilla bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839812 (''Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6'')

set default ticket origin to Community

Added initial screened field value.

c96c3e5..cd7d059 389-ds-base-1.2.11 -> 389-ds-base-1.2.11
commit changeset:64d7791/389-ds-base
Author: Rich Megginson rmeggins@redhat.com
Date: Wed Aug 22 20:52:24 2012 -0600
ef63c61..6cfc1c0 master -> master
commit changeset:94f9cef/389-ds-base
Author: Rich Megginson rmeggins@redhat.com
Date: Wed Aug 22 20:52:24 2012 -0600

Metadata Update from @rmeggins:
- Issue set to the milestone: 1.2.11.12

7 years ago

389-ds-base is moving from Pagure to Github. This means that new issues and pull requests
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This issue has been cloned to Github and is available here:
- https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/355

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Metadata Update from @spichugi:
- Issue close_status updated to: wontfix (was: Fixed)

3 years ago

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