[midPoint] Reconcile Task disabled users in GUI

Jason Everling jeverling at bshp.edu
Thu Oct 1 15:55:01 CEST 2015


No I don't have anything like that in my recon task, no activation at all
in it. This happened again a few days ago when a value in my CSV resource
was modified for a user, their last name which is "weak" so it did not
update in midpoint, and when I ran the audit report I saw that it replaced
ENABLED with ENABLED making it look like they were "disabled" but they were
not, it just replaced enabled with enabled.

I went further into my CSV resource and found the below,

         <activation>
            <administrativeStatus>
               <inbound>
                  <expression>
                     <value>enabled</value>
                  </expression>
               </inbound>
            </administrativeStatus>
         </activation>

So I changed it and added the highlighted,

         <activation>
            <administrativeStatus>
               <inbound>
                  <strength>weak</strength>
                  <expression>
                     <value>enabled</value>
                  </expression>
               </inbound>
            </administrativeStatus>
         </activation>

This might have been causing the false positives as when an attribute was
changed, even if the attribute was "weak" it would still replace "enabled"
with "enabled" in the user object causing a notification to fire.

So far after the change, a few days now, I have not had the issue again,

Maybe this is not the cause? But I will keep an eye on it, I have
notifications going to my email so I will be able to see if it happens
again before I let the notifications go out to the users.

JASON

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Ivan Noris <ivan.noris at evolveum.com> wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> I have encountered similar behaviour - reconciliation or recompute task
> (or reconcile checkbox) disabled accounts that were not provided by roles.
>
> This happened after migration from 3.0.x -> 3.3-snapshot and with the
> following configuration in resource (see bold text):
>
>                 <activation>
>                     <existence>
>                         <outbound>
>                 <strength>weak</strength>
>                             <expression>
>                                 <path>$focusExists</path>
>                             </expression>
>                         </outbound>
>                 </existence>
>                 <administrativeStatus>
>                     <outbound>
>                         <strength>strong</strength>
> <!-- XXX to allow to disable when removing roles by recomputing users; but
> enforcement MUST be set to FULL for this to work -->
>                         <expression>
>                             <script>
>                                 <code>
>                                     import
> com.evolveum.midpoint.xml.ns._public.common.common_3.ActivationStatusType;
> *                                    if (legal && assigned) { //
> previously only "legal" was used*
>                                         input;
>                                     } else {
>                                         ActivationStatusType.DISABLED;
>                                     }
>                                 </code>
>                             </script>
>                         </expression>
>                     </outbound>
>                 </administrativeStatus>
> </activation>
>
> Are you using this config too?
>
> Regard,
> I.
>
>
> On 09/25/2015 05:58 PM, Jason Everling wrote:
>
> I found out why!
>
> So if these users did not have any role assigned then their GUI accounts
> were being disabled.
>
> Strange though, this did not happen in 3.1.1, so maybe there was a bug in
> 3.1.1 related to that?
>
> JASON
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jason Everling <jeverling at bshp.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a recon task that runs every night and after I updated us to 3.2
>> the task last night disabled about 30 accounts, only their GUI account and
>> not all their other resource accounts.
>>
>> It should have never disabled their accounts, I cannot figure out why
>> that happened and even within the resource there is nothing stated to
>> inactivate or anything, this same task/resource has been running every
>> night for about 3 weeks now and this is the first time this happened,
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> JASON
>>
>
>
>
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