[PATCH] samba-tool: Create NIS enabled users and unixHomeDirectory attribute

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu Oct 30 14:56:40 MDT 2014


Hi Marc,

Thanks for helping improve samba-tool. :-)

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 09:42:30PM +0100, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
 From 5b6afeab2e70232aaf89ef3115bfd9ccd651742a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 21:20:42 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] samba-tool: Create NIS enabled users and unixHomeDirectory
>  attribute
> 
> Allow to create NIS enabled user accounts via 'samba-tool user add'.
> To create NIS enabled accounts, the parameters
> --uid-number=, --login-shell=, --unix-home=, --gid-number=
> are mandatory. Because we didn't had a parameter to set unixHomeDirectory
> yet, this patch also adds this feature.
> 
> See: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10909
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org>
> ---
>  python/samba/netcmd/user.py | 13 +++++++++++--
>  python/samba/samdb.py       | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/python/samba/netcmd/user.py b/python/samba/netcmd/user.py
> index 344f35f..9c67cfa 100644
> --- a/python/samba/netcmd/user.py
> +++ b/python/samba/netcmd/user.py
> diff --git a/python/samba/samdb.py b/python/samba/samdb.py
> index 0ea52fb..09f594a 100644
> --- a/python/samba/samdb.py
> +++ b/python/samba/samdb.py
> @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ member: %s
>              description=None, mailaddress=None, internetaddress=None,
>              telephonenumber=None, physicaldeliveryoffice=None, sd=None,
>              setpassword=True, uidnumber=None, gidnumber=None, gecos=None,
> -            loginshell=None, uid=None):
> +            loginshell=None, uid=None, nisdomain=None, unixhome=None):
>          """Adds a new user with additional parameters
>  
>          :param username: Name of the new user
> @@ -333,6 +333,8 @@ member: %s
>          :param gecos: RFC2307 Unix GECOS field of the new user
>          :param loginshell: RFC2307 Unix login shell of the new user
>          :param uid: RFC2307 Unix username of the new user
> +        :param nisdomain: RFC2307 Unix NIS domain of the new user
> +        :param unixhome: RFC2307 Unix home directory of the new user
>          """
>  
>          displayname = ""
> @@ -412,8 +414,15 @@ member: %s
>          if sd is not None:
>              ldbmessage["nTSecurityDescriptor"] = ndr_pack(sd)
>  
> +        if nisdomain is not None:
> +            if None in (uidnumber, loginshell, unixhome, gidnumber):
> +                raise Exception("""Missing parameters. To enable NIS features,
> +the follwing options have to be given:
> +--nis-domain=, --uidNumber=, --login-shell=, --unix-home=, --gid-number=
> +Operation cancelled.""")
> +
Please don't raise Exception for user-facing errors but CommandError. The
description should generally also be a single line like in all Python
errors.

s/follwing/following/

>          ldbmessage2 = None
> -        if any(map(lambda b: b is not None, (uid, uidnumber, gidnumber, gecos, loginshell))):
> +        if any(map(lambda b: b is not None, (uid, uidnumber, gidnumber, gecos, loginshell, nisdomain, unixhome))):
>              ldbmessage2 = ldb.Message()
>              ldbmessage2.dn = ldb.Dn(self, user_dn)
>              ldbmessage2["objectClass"] = ldb.MessageElement('posixAccount', ldb.FLAG_MOD_ADD, 'objectClass')
> @@ -427,6 +436,12 @@ member: %s
>                  ldbmessage2["gecos"] = ldb.MessageElement(str(gecos), ldb.FLAG_MOD_REPLACE, 'gecos')
>              if loginshell is not None:
>                  ldbmessage2["loginShell"] = ldb.MessageElement(str(loginshell), ldb.FLAG_MOD_REPLACE, 'loginShell')
> +            if unixhome is not None:
> +                ldbmessage2["unixHomeDirectory"] = ldb.MessageElement(str(unixhome), ldb.FLAG_MOD_REPLACE, 'unixHomeDirectory')
> +            if nisdomain is not None:
> +                ldbmessage2["msSFU30NisDomain"] = ldb.MessageElement(str(nisdomain), ldb.FLAG_MOD_REPLACE, 'msSFU30NisDomain')
> +                ldbmessage2["msSFU30Name"] = ldb.MessageElement(str(username), ldb.FLAG_MOD_REPLACE, 'msSFU30Name')
> +                ldbmessage2["unixUserPassword"] = ldb.MessageElement('ABCD!efgh12345$67890', ldb.FLAG_MOD_REPLACE, 'unixUserPassword')
^^^ This just seems to hardcode a user password?

Jelmer


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