HUANG, TONY wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> I have been starting from scratch. I will check my logs again. My
> environment is disconnected from the Internet and I can't easily copy
> and paste to the thread. My IPA version is the same going from the old
> to the new (4.8 I believe). The reason I had to do IPA to IPA migration
> is because my old one is not FIPS enabled where as my new one is FIPS
> enabled, therefore, I can't just replicate it by promoting it
> 
> When your "ipa migrate-ds" worked for you, did you also get nobody as
> your group ownership to the files in your home directory? Similar to
> when I login to the client machine connected to the newly migrated IPA
> server, I get /usr/bin/id Cannot find name with GID 6314001, and ls - l
> /home/htony shows htony : nobody on all of my files and directories.

No, everything is looking fine. The nss commands like getent and id all
show the properly resolved group names.

> Red Hat support is telling me to delete the users and re-create them ..
> which defeats the purpose of running ipa migrate-ds ... and I have many
> users and home directories on a NFS share.

They may be confused by UPG. There currently no way to add a UPG to an
existing user, so re-creating the user is the only way.

> I am fine if there is no way to do this migration easily, but before
> coming to that conclusion I am trying to find a way forward.

It's hard to help without seeing what is going on beyond the symptom.
Like I said, the migration cli I provided works for me.

rob

> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> --Tony
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 11:15 AM Rob Crittenden <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     HUANG, TONY wrote:
>     > Hi Rob,
>     >
>     > I've asked Red Hat support, and the support engineer is telling me
>     that
>     > it doesn't support migrating of User Private Group and has pointed me
>     > over to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261536 The
>     support
>     > engineer is also asking me to create new UPG.
> 
>     It's true that migrating UPG is not possible. The group is converted
>     into a standard group. You can't create UPG manually by default. I was
>     curious one day and worked out a way to re-attach a group, but that's a
>     different problem.
> 
>     I don't think you've ever said which version of IPA you are migrating
>     from/to. Versions sometimes can make a big difference.
> 
>     You also aren't saying what you are doing in between attempts. Are you
>     fully starting over in between executions or re-running migrate-ds? It
>     would be truly helpful to see the output of the command when groups fail
>     to migrate. If it fails it will say so. If it doesn't include the groups
>     at all then it isn't finding them.
> 
>     migrate-ds doesn't do anything particularly complicated. It does LDAP
>     searches for the various objects. For group since you specified
>     --group-objectclass=posixaccount it's going to search for all of those.
>     This should be visible in your access log.
> 
>     This works for me:
> 
>     ipa migrate-ds --bind-dn="cn=Directory Manager"
>     --user-container=cn=users,cn=accounts
>     --group-container=cn=groups,cn=accounts --group-objectclass=posixgroup
>     
> --user-ignore-attribute={krbPrincipalName,krbextradata,krblastfailedauth,krblastpwdchange,krblastsuccessfulauth,krbloginfailedcount,krbpasswordexpiration,krbticketflags,krbpwdpolicyreference,mepManagedEntry}
>     --user-ignore-objectclass mepOriginEntry
>     --group-ignore-attribute=mepmanagedby
>     --group-ignore-objectclass=mepmanagedEntry --with-compat
>     ldap://ipa.example.test
> 
>     > Now my question is if ipa migrate-ds doesn't support migration of UPG,
>     > then how do I move forward after running ipa migrate-ds? I currently
>     > have GIDs that don't associate to usernames and group file
>     ownership is
>     > nobody.
> 
>     Like I said, it doesn't migrate UPG and continue to be UPG, but it will
>     migrate the groups.
> 
>     > Looking to see if anyone in the community has done an IPA to IPA
>     > migration ...
> 
>     Have you searched the list archives?
> 
>     rob
> 
>     >
>     > Thanks!
>     >
>     > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 10:26 AM Rob Crittenden
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     HUANG, TONY wrote:
>     >     > I didn't get any errors regarding user private groups at
>     all, and the
>     >     > UPGs didn't even get migrated to become regular POSIX UNIX
>     groups
>     >     > either. They are just not there, so when I login I see a message
>     >     > complaining that /usr/bin/id cannot find my group name.
>     >
>     >     They may not be reported as errors, just part of the output.
>     >
>     >     You might also want to look at your private groups in the
>     original IPA
>     >     to ensure they have the posixgroup objectclass. That is the search
>     >     filter being used.
>     >
>     >     rob
>     >
>     >     >
>     >     > I've tried importing the entire cn=groups, but it didn't
>     solve the
>     >     > missing UPG problem at all.
>     >     >
>     >     > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 9:59 AM Rob Crittenden
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >     > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     HUANG, TONY wrote:
>     >     >     > Rob,
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     > I've tried the command from the website below with the
>     same
>     >     result.
>     >     >     > Furthermore, at the FreeIPA to FreeIPA section it states
>     >     "The command
>     >     >     > doesn't migrate user private groups.", which is
>     very strange,
>     >     >     because my
>     >     >     > migration becomes more complicated when i have to
>     change group
>     >     >     ownership
>     >     >     > and potentially user files.
>     >     >
>     >     >     What means is that after migration the groups are no longer
>     >     private.
>     >     >     They are regular groups.
>     >     >
>     >     >     > Am i doing something wrong here?
>     >     >
>     >     >     What does the output of migrate-ds say about the missing
>     groups?
>     >     >
>     >     >     rob
>     >     >
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     > Thanks again for your help!
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     > Tony
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 9:06 AM Rob Crittenden
>     >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>     >     >     > <mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>>> wrote:
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     HUANG, TONY wrote:
>     >     >     >     > Hi Rob,
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     > Thanks for the reply. 
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     > User Private Group didn't get migrated. When I
>     login I
>     >     see Group
>     >     >     >     number
>     >     >     >     > being a number. 
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     > How do I migrate UPG over?
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     I don't see why they didn't migrate in the first
>     place.
>     >     Using
>     >     >     your CLI
>     >     >     >     *only* groups migrated for me, not users, because
>     of the
>     >     error:
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >       tuser: attribute "mepManagedEntry" not allowed
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     I'd suggest the migration command-line at
>     >     >     >     https://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/Migration
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     rob
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     > Thanks very much!
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     > Tony
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 7:34 AM Rob Crittenden
>     >     >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>     >     >     >     <mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>>
>     >     >     >     > <mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>     >     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>>>> wrote:
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     Tony Super via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>     >     >     >     >     > Hello,
>     >     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     > I am trying to migrate from my an IPA server
>     >     that has FIPS
>     >     >     >     >     disabled to an IPA server that has FIPS
>     enabled. Both
>     >     >     the old and
>     >     >     >     >     the new IPA will have DNS, CA, and etc.
>     >     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     > I ran: ipa migrate-ds --bind-dn="cn=Directory
>     >     Manager"
>     >     >     >     >     --user-container=cn=users,cn=accounts
>     >     >     >     >     --group-container=cn=groups,cn=accounts
>     >     >     >     >     --group-objectclass=posixgroup
>     >     >     >     >     --user-ignore-objectclass=mepOriginEntry
>     --with-compat
>     >     >     >     >     ldap://oldipa.server.com
>     <http://oldipa.server.com>
>     >     <http://oldipa.server.com> <http://oldipa.server.com>
>     >     >     <http://oldipa.server.com>
>     >     >     >     <http://oldipa.server.com> However, when I
>     >     >     >     >     login to a client machine connected to the
>     new IPA
>     >     >     server, my file
>     >     >     >     >     ownership becomes htony : nobody.
>     >     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     > What steps have I missed within the migration
>     >     process?
>     >     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     > I've tried exporting cn=groups tree from
>     the old IPA
>     >     >     server
>     >     >     >     into a
>     >     >     >     >     LDIF and imported to the new IPA server, but it
>     >     did not
>     >     >     solve the
>     >     >     >     >     problem.
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     Did your user-private groups migrate? Is
>     there an
>     >     htony
>     >     >     group?
>     >     >     >     What is
>     >     >     >     >     the group value in getent passwd htony?
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     > For everything else, DNS, sudoers, automount,
>     >     and etc,
>     >     >     can I
>     >     >     >     >     simply export from the old server and import
>     into the
>     >     >     new server?
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     Probably. It's possible you might have to
>     massage some
>     >     >     of the
>     >     >     >     entries
>     >     >     >     >     but I don't know of anything specific.
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     > I also have 100+ client machines, is there an
>     >     easy way
>     >     >     where
>     >     >     >     I can
>     >     >     >     >     unjoin the machines from old-ipa-server and then
>     >     join to the
>     >     >     >     >     new-ipa-server? (My infrastructure is
>     Ansible-enabled)
>     >     >     >     >     Take a look at the ansible-freeipa project
>     (and not
>     >     >     >     freeipa-ansible).
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >     >     rob
>     >     >     >     >
>     >     >     >
>     >     >
>     >
> 
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