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

Rowland Penny repenny241155 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 15:19:43 MDT 2014


On 30/10/14 20:56, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> 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
It is what ADUC does, every user that has Unix attributes added by the 
UNIX_Attributes tab, gets this password and as the old saying, 'when in 
Rome, do as the Romans do'

Rowland



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