Re: account system group deletions

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 08:53:59AM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On ma, 19 huhti 2021, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:44:43PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> > > 
> > > +1 for me on groups.
> > > 
> > > This does raise the question about user accounts no?
> > > We could have a group that is created with the same name as a group that was
> > > deleted, and suddenly our auditing trail needs to take into account a time
> > > component as group X at time A may be different than group X at time B.
> > 
> > Yeah. Luckily we don't add many groups anymore...so I don't think that
> > will be too much of a problem.
> > > 
> > > I've the feeling that user accounts are a tad more sensitive and thus we may
> > > want to keep our current policies, I'm raising the question here nonetheless :)
> > 
> > Yeah, user accounts are a different thing.
> > The case you mention above with groups could be a lot more confusing
> > with users... user foo at time A is not the same as foo at time B.
> > I'm ok with just keeping out policy of not deleting accounts except
> > under exceptional cases.
> 
> FreeIPA has a concept of life-cycle management for users -- see 'ipa
> help stageuser' and 'ipa help user-stage'.
> 
> More about it:
> Design page: https://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/User_Life-Cycle_Management
> User documentation: Command line: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_identity_management/managing-user-accounts-using-the-command-line_configuring-and-managing-idm
> Web UI: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_identity_management/managing-user-accounts-using-the-idm-web-ui_configuring-and-managing-idm

Interesting. Will read through those. 

kevin

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