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Create a FreeIPA role/group that only allows one to activate/deactivate accounts

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active

Research direction

Start by reading this issue and locating the FreeIPA role and permission management in the repository; no specific files or tests are named in the payload. Work out which permissions allow account activation and deactivation without allowing deletion, then verify the role cannot perform account deletion and can perform both requested actions.

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Description

We've had an issue that someone was granted FreeIPA admin on a cluster to activate student accounts, but that person deleted accounts instead of just activating/deactivating, which caused issues because usernames got reused. "admin" is too powerful, and a more limited set of permissions should be crafted for just the task of account activation/deactivation.

Dominant language
Puppet
Stars
16
Forks
31
Avg merge
1d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
22

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