[PATCH] make samba-tool aware of all 7 fsmo roles

[Rowland Penny]

On 20/05/15 17:06, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
>>> Can you change the commit message to this:
>>>
>>>       samba-tool: make 'samba-tool fsmo *' aware of all 7 fsmo roles
>>>
>>>       BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10734
>>>
>>>       Signed-off-by: Rowland Penny <repenny241155 at gmail.com>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> Done
> I don't see an updated commit message...

Ah, sorry, missed the bug line.

>>>> @@ -58,6 +59,26 @@ def transfer_role(outf, role, samdb):
>>>>            m["becomeSchemaMaster"]= ldb.MessageElement(
>>>>                "1", ldb.FLAG_MOD_REPLACE,
>>>>                "becomeSchemaMaster")
>>>> +    elif role == "domaindns":
>>>> +        # this would work in the same way as the infrastructure role
>>>> if the schema allowed it
>>>> +        # but it doesn't, so will have to sieze
>>> Can you explain this a bit?
>>> What is this different (in detail)?
>> To tranfer the main 5 roles, you just create an attribute called
>> 'become****' containing '1' in the DN that you want to transfer i.e.
>> create 'becomeRidMaster: 1' to transfer the RIDMaster role. There isn't
>> a 'become****' attribute for the two dns roles (or at least I cannot
>> find them and believe me, I tried), so it seems the only way to change
>> them is to seize them.
> Wouldn't it be better to simulate the becomeROLE change behaviour?

Well possibly, but how?
Please bear in mind, until I started looking into this, python was a 
very big snake to me, I am used to writing bash scripts :-)

>
> We should do the change on the current master as that is still alive
> and it needs to give up the role before the new dc takes over.

Ah well, back to google (there are other internet search engines available)

>
> Maybe it would work if we do the ldap modify on the current role owner
> and then send new owner a DsReplicaSync message to trigger an immediate
> replication
> from the old to the new owner.

How about if I remove the transfer part until I sort it out and just 
change the show & sieze parts ?

Rowland

> metze
>