[Freeipa-users] Re: Searching for user by extended attribute

[Aaron Hicks]

Hello everyone,

 

Apologies for the terse emails earlier, I was on my ride into work.

 

We missed an important part of the exercise. Who we were using for kinit?

 

I'm getting different responses when querying as admin vs. querying as a
User Administrator.

 

When I use user-find via the REST API as the admin I get the attributes.

 

When I use user-find via the REST API as a User Administrator I the
attributes are missing.

 

Sooo. the question is now: how do I give the User Administrator role
permission to read those attributes?

 

The massive checklist at
https://my.ipa.fqdn/ipa/ui/#/e/permission/details/System%3A%20Read%20User%20
Kerberos%20Login%20Attributes

 

Tick them, save,  and they're now visible.

 

We're tying to compare user information between our customer management
system and the directory. So we need to compare these attributes to see if a
user account needs to be updated. I'm using user_find rather than user_show
as user_find gives all the users as a big JSON object I can iterate over in
memory and a single REST API request, rather than a many (2000+) individual
rest queries. The single request takes less time that thousands of
individual requests, so a no-op run takes about 5 seconds, a run that has to
make a request for each user takes about 10 minutes.

 

While I may seem grumpy, I did appreciate your help. It did help me find the
solution.

 

Regards,

 

Aaron Hicks

 

 

From: Aaron Hicks [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2017 9:03 AM
To: Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy(a)redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Crittenden <rcritten(a)redhat.com>; FreeIPA users list
<freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org&gt;
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: Searching for user by extended attribute

 

I am on a bus :) your suggestion are things I have already tried. I know the
command line works.

 

My question is "what is the correct REST API query parameter that duplicates
the -all command line parameter?"

 

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From: Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy(a)redhat.com <mailto:[e-mail]> >
Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 8:51:59 AM
To: Aaron Hicks
Cc: Rob Crittenden; FreeIPA users list
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: Searching for user by extended attribute 

 

On ma, 06 marras 2017, Aaron Hicks wrote:
> I am querying the REST API and it does not respond the same as the
> command line. So I know that command works and it gives the information
> I want. I need the REST API (which I'm querying via a python module
> using plain ordinary HTTP requests) to give the same information.
>
> I'd like to know the correct REST query or figure if the REST API has a
> bug. 
So, did you try to use exactly same JSON request as 'ipa -vvv user-find
--all' shows?

From your terse responses it is unclear at what state you are since my
morning's answers. You seem to ignore suggestions we made -- at least,
you are not showing what's different for you.


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> ________________________________
> From: Rob Crittenden <rcritten(a)redhat.com <mailto:[e-mail]> >
> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 8:31:31 AM
> To: FreeIPA users list; Alexander Bokovoy
> Cc: Aaron Hicks
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: Searching for user by extended attribute
>
> Aaron Hicks via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> > Sorry, this does not address that the REST API is giving a different
> > response than the command line or built in Python API.
> >
> > This behaviour is unexpected and not described in the documentation.
>
> What difference is that? I ran your command and user-find and got
> identical output.
>
> rob
>
> >
> > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy(a)redhat.com
<mailto:[e-mail]> >
> > *Sent:* Monday, November 6, 2017 8:14:29 PM
> > *To:* FreeIPA users list
> > *Cc:* Aaron Hicks
> > *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: Searching for user by extended 
attribute
> >
> > On ma, 06 marras 2017, Aaron Hicks via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> >>Hi everyon,
> >>
> >>This seems to be a flaw in the FreeIPA API itself.
> >>
> >>Using curl and the session method Alexander wrote up here:
> >>https://vda.li/en/posts/2015/05/28/talking-to-freeipa-api-with-sessions/
> >>
> >>There is no combination of the 'all':somevalue that seem to trigger a
proper
> >>all response. This is either broken or improperly documented.
> I've tried
> >>'all':True  'all':1  all:'True'
> >>
> >>This is the curl request I'm making at the end:
> >>
> >>curl -v \
> >>     -H referer:https://$IPAHOSTNAME/ipa \
> >>     -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
> >>     -H "Accept:applicaton/json" \
> >>     -c $COOKIEJAR -b $COOKIEJAR \
> >>     --cacert /etc/ipa/ca.crt \
> >>     -d
> '{"method":"user_find","params":[[""],{"all":"true"}],"id":0}'
> \
> >>     -X POST https://$IPAHOSTNAME/ipa/session/json
> > See my other answer.
> >
> > I think what you are confused about as well is the fact that 'user_find'
> > is not the command that returns _everything_ from the user entries it
> > finds. Instead, it returns a curated list of attributes -- there are two
> > lists, actually, -- one for a normal (without --all) and one for
> > extended operation. The reason for that is because in all
> > '<object>-find' calls we don't want to resolve potential
> membership
> > information for an object to be returned. The list of members/membership
> > would be too involving in case of a large database which would slow down
> > find operations a lot. As result, we tuned find operation to provide a
> > smaller subset (still, --all produces a bit larger one too). If you need
> > all attributes, use '<object>-show' instead, once you found the name
> for
> > an object.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Aaron Hicks [mailto:[e-mail]]
> >>Sent: Monday, 6 November 2017 3:20 PM
> >>To: 'Alexander Bokovoy' <abokovoy(a)redhat.com
> <mailto:[e-mail]>
> ; 'FreeIPA users list'
> &gt;&gt;&lt;freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
<mailto:[e-mail]> >
> >>Subject: RE: [Freeipa-users] Searching for user by extended
> attribute
> >>
> >>Ah, another point of difference is that I'm using this module to
communicate
> >>with the API https://github.com/opennode/python-freeipa
> >>
> >>I've not found any documentation for using any Python modules provided by
> >>FreeAPI itself in standalone python scripts, rather than via the ipa
> >>console...
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Aaron Hicks [mailto:[e-mail]]
> >>Sent: Monday, 6 November 2017 10:20 AM
> >>To: 'Alexander Bokovoy' <abokovoy(a)redhat.com
> <mailto:[e-mail]>
> ; 'FreeIPA users list'
> &gt;&gt;&lt;freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
<mailto:[e-mail]> >
> >>Subject: RE: [Freeipa-users] Searching for user by extended
> attribute
> >>
> >>Ugh, on further testing; the ipa python console is giving different
> >>responses that the code I'm using in a python script.
> >>
> >>In the ipa console, the additional attributes are listed.
> >>
> >>In the script I'm setting up a python-freeipa.Client object (called
> >>client)and passing the following call:
> >>
> >>client.user_find(all=True)
> >>
> >>and the user records that are returned are still only the 'default'
> >>attributes, even though the attributes are set and have values.
> >>
> >>This is the code I'm testing, it's loading all the variables from a
> >>configuration file provided by the config object.
> >>
> >># First two lines import the project's configuration and logging objects
> >>from this.configuration import config, args from this.log import
base_logger
> >>from python_freeipa import Client
> >>
> >>logger = base_logger.getChild(__name__)
> >>
> >>if config['freeipa'].getboolean('enabled') is True:
> >>    if config['freeipa'].getboolean('verify_ssl') is not True:
> >>        logger.warning(
> >>            'Verifying TLS connection to %s disabled.' %
> >>            config['freeipa']['server']
> >>        )
> >>    logger.info('freeIPA startup')
> >>    client = Client(
> >>        config['freeipa']['server'],
> >>        version=config['freeipa']['version'],
> >>        verify_ssl=config['freeipa'].getboolean('verify_ssl')
> >>    )
> >>    client.login(
> >>        config['freeipa']['user'],
> >>        config['freeipa']['password']
> >>    )
> >>else:
> >>    logger.info('freeIPA disabled')
> >>
> >>def ipa_query(*dargs, **kwargs):
> >>    if config['freeipa'].getboolean('enabled') is True:
> >>        return client.user_find(*dargs, **kwargs)
> >>    else:
> >>        logger.info('freeIPA disabled')
> >>        return None
> >>
> >>ipa_query(all=True)
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Aaron
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Alexander Bokovoy [mailto:[e-mail]]
> >>Sent: Friday, 3 November 2017 7:10 PM
> >>To: FreeIPA users list <freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
<mailto:[e-mail]> >
> >>Cc: Aaron Hicks <aaron.hicks(a)nesi.org.nz
> <mailto:[e-mail]>
>
> >>Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Searching for user by extended attribute
> >>
> >>On pe, 03 marras 2017, Aaron Hicks via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>We've added two objectclasses to the default user in our FreeIPA
instance.
> >>>We're able to set and modify them fine, however we
> need two additional
> >>>functions.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>We need two additional attributes auedupersonsharedtoken and
> >>>edupersonprinciplename to be included in the user attributes when
> >>>executing user-find with the python-freeipa module. It works fine from
> >>>the command line by adding the --all argument, but there's no
> >>>equivalent to --all the python-freeipa module.
> >>It is all there.
> >>
> >>$ ipa console
> >>(Custom IPA interactive Python console)
> >>>>> len(api.Command.user_find()['result'][0])
> >>11
> >>>>> len(api.Command.user_find(all=True)['result'][0])
> >>24
> >>
> >>>We need to be able to user-find to search for users by these
> >>>attributes, both from the command line and the python-freeipa module.
> >>>There does not seem to be an equivalent of the --setattr command on the
> >>>find function to search by attributes provided by additional
> >>>objectclass
> >>schema.
> >>This is a bit different. You need to make sure you injected those
attributes
> >>into existing object definitions if you want to see them used
> by the
> >>baseldap.py machinery.
> >>
> >>Can you show a code you use to extend IPA classes?
> >>
> >>--
> >>/ Alexander Bokovoy
> >>
> >>
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