#4587 ipa man page incorrectly indicates how to add users
Closed: Fixed None Opened 9 years ago by mkosek.

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7): Bug 1147679

Description of problem:
The ipa man page for ipa group-add-member says:

ipa group-add-member bar --users=admin,foo

It appears this does not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.3.3-28.el7_0.1

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create some groups
2. Create some users
3. ipa group-add-member ose-user
--users=fancyuser1,normaluser1,teamuser1,teamuser2

Actual results:
  Group name: ose-user
  Description: Users with OpenShift access
  GID: 426800001
  Member users: fancyuser1
  Failed members:
    member user: fancyuser1,normaluser1,teamuser1,teamuser2: no such entry
    member group:
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Number of members added 0
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Expected results:
As per man page, users should be added to group.

Additional info:
--users=foo --users=bar or --users={foo,bar} are alleged to work, but are not
indicated in the man page.

master:

  • f36794e Fix example usage in ipa man page.

ipa-4-1:

  • 6e1c7df Fix example usage in ipa man page.

ipa-4-0:

  • 9b61454 Fix example usage in ipa man page.

Metadata Update from @mkosek:
- Issue assigned to dkupka
- Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 4.0.4

7 years ago

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