[PATCH] samba-tool: Easily edit a users object in AD

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:27:53 +0300
Alexander Bokovoy <ab at samba.org> wrote:

> On ke, 28 kesä 2017, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 09:32 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba-technical
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > OK, the attached patch should meet all problems raised against the
> > > first one, except a test.
> > > 
> > > I am struggling with the test. I can see how I could write a test
> > > that would:
> > > 
> > > Create a user to use in the test.
> > > Run 'samba-tool user edit USER'
> > > 
> > > I cannot then see how I can write code to simulate a sysadmin
> > > altering the users object and/or saving and closing the editor.
> > 
> > You replace the EDITOR with a script that modifies the object's
> > LDIF.
> Yes, something like
> EDITOR="sed -i -e 's/attribute: foo/attribute: bar/'"
> 

That is even easier, I was thinking something a lot more complex, just
need to identify an attribute created by 'samba-tool user create' that
will be there and can be altered.

Rowland