Try to add permission an an interactive mode:
ipa permission-add
It will start prompting you one parameter at a time and then bail out before prompting you for filter or type or something else.
Might be related to other issues with the same plugin.
This is because all of the options are optional. The fix may be to add alwaysask=True to each of the options.
This patch adds alwaysak=true to those attributes as suggested. jzeleny-freeipa-0027-Make-ipa-permission-add-ask-for-optional-attributes.patch
master: 9b7920b
Metadata Update from @dpal: - Issue assigned to jzeleny - Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 2.0 - 2011/01 (cleanup)
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