Robert Kudyba wrote: > > > Now any idea why the original '$gecos' inserts the actual string > $gecos > > into FreeIPA/LDAP? > > It's a shell issue, single quotes prevents any argument expansion, use > double quotes. > > > Sure but using just double quotes $gecos is still added to the FreeIPA > record. I can at least import it with "'$gecos'" but the script then > imports the single quotes as a part of the record.
I assume you tried "$gecos"? > We also noticed if a NIS user has a middle initial the script errors with: > ipa: ERROR: command 'user_add' takes at most 1 argument There should be a way to file a doc bug within the docs themselves. The script was never meant to be bullet-proof. It was provided for guidance purposes. There are *lots* of corner cases with names. > So is there some escape character or something that works around this > that isn't documented? I don't see anything withip help user-add > > > > Logs also spit out this warning after every user is added: > > > Failed to set perms (3140) on file > (/run/ipa/ccaches/ad...@ourdomain.edu <mailto:ad...@ourdomain.edu>)!, > > > I added a comment to issue > 7032 https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/7032#comment-713784 not sure if > this is still a "won't fix" issue? It's not won't fix, it's just extremely low in priority since it doesn't affect operation. rob _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-users mailing list -- freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-users-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org
