> On Apr 3, 2015, at 6:17 AM, Dmitri Pal <d...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 04/03/2015 01:51 AM, Brian Topping wrote:
>> Great work on 4.1.0! As a CentOS user, I am able to convey the 3.x -> 4.1.0 
>> upgrade went smoothly via the CentOS 7.0 -> 7.1 upgrade on my replicated 
>> pair of IPA instances.
>> 
>> Question about proper setup of service accounts: I see that the service 
>> accounts I set up under "cn=etc, cn=sysaccounts" are still able to log in, 
>> but the permission changes have left them unable to read anything. 
>> Previously, I hacked the ACLs on the domain root. I would like to believe 
>> that's not how it should be done.
>> 
>> That said, I was surprised that service accounts are not supported in 4.x 
>> UI, so I wonder if service accounts 
>> (https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2012-June/msg00011.html 
>> <https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2012-June/msg00011.html>) are 
>> the wrong way for services like Postfix to be doing LDAP queries.
>> 
> 
> The ACIs changed because we tightened them for the read permissions.
> I hope you would be able to change them so that your service account works 
> again.
> Here is the root page of the changes that we implemented.
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Permissions_V2 
> <http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Permissions_V2>
> 
> System account is probably the right one for Postfix.
> 
> It is not in the UI and CLI because other features take precedence. We 
> acknowledge that it needs to be added, we just not have enough time and 
> resources to do it.
> When we looked at 4.2 we assessed it too and it was on the border line with a 
> good chance of not happening, sorry.

Thanks Dmitri. I had known in advance about the ACLs, but couldn't fully 
appreciate what was going to happen until doing the upgrade. Once it was done, 
I was kind of surprised that the ACL changes replicated to the 3.x server. As 
luck would have it, I didn't snapshot both servers at the same time before 
upgrading either, and eventually, the ACLs managed to work their way back to 
both the 3.x snapshots (one of them was obviously snapshotted after the other 
one had been installed with 4.1). I couldn't find upgrade notes with "gotcha"s, 
this might be a good addition if there are somewhere. It was kind of humorous 
in all.

As for the service feature itself, please don't apologize. I think you guys did 
a spectacular job with this feature set. What I was concerned about is making 
sure I am doing things as closely as possible to future patterns to reduce 
upgrade costs. I don't know if it's possible to document the pattern without 
committing to the feature, but it might be helpful.

The one thing I would like to discover at this point is whether roles and 
privileges build in the UI can be used by system accounts. If so, I could stop 
editing ACLs directly in LDIF, which is error prone and not the kind of thing I 
remember too well.

Kind regards, Brian

> 
> Thanks
> Dmitri
> 
>> Thanks, Brian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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> Thank you,
> Dmitri Pal
> 
> Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
> Red Hat, Inc.
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