[pve-devel] [PATCH access-control] jobs: realm sync: fix scheduled LDAP syncs not applying attributes correctly

[Christoph Heiss]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:57:34PM +0100, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> Am 19.03.24 um 14:48 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
> > This was reported by a user in the forum [0].
> >
> > The cause was that the user-* standard options were not registered when
> > the sync was called from the scheduler, resulting in the following
> > error:
> >
> >   pvescheduler[2849]: skipping attribute mapping 'cn'->'comment' for user 'test at samba0' - no such standard option 'user-comment'
> >
> > Fix this by simply importing the PVE::API2::User module, thus ensuring
> > the options get registered.
> >
> > [0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ldap-integration-comment-email-first-name-lastname.143490/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss at proxmox.com>
>
> Fixes: cb93636 ("LDAP sync: improve validation of synced attributes")
> Reviewed-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
> Tested-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>

Thanks for the review & testing!

>
> Thank you for the fix!
>
> The schema for the user- properties could also be moved somewhere that
> can be accessed by both API2::User module and Auth::LDAP module and
> included there directly. That would be more future-proof, but as a quick
> fix, this is fine too.

That was actually my approach too, and I already started working on a
series for exactly this.

But since this definitely requires some care to catch all sites and
further avoid getting it then stuck in review limbo, I thought sending a
quick fix should help this get resolved faster, for now at least. :^)