freeipa

#5382 ipa cert-request with missing fqdn in principal deserves better error message
Closed: wontfix by rcritten. Opened by pvoborni.

Closed: wontfix
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Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7): Bug 1271934

Description of problem:
If ipa cert-request is given with blank FQDN in principal gives error
ipa: ERROR: 'fqdn' is required
Rather than this message, it deserves better message like
ipa: ERROR: The Fully Qualified Domain name for principal is required
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-server-4.2.0-13.el7.x86_64
How reproducible:
100%
Steps to Reproduce:
1. openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout example.key -out example.csr
-subj "/C=US/ST=CA/L=Mountain View/O=IPA/OU=QA/CN=ipaserver1.testrelm.test"
2. ipa cert-request example.csr --add --principal=service/
--request-type=invalid
Actual results:
Error message like
ipa: ERROR: 'fqdn' is required
Expected results:
Error message like
ipa: ERROR: The Fully Qualified Domain name for principal is required
Additional info:

Metadata Update from @pvoborni:
- Issue assigned to someone
- Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 4.5 backlog

Thank you taking time to submit this request for FreeIPA. Unfortunately this bug was not given priority and the team lacks the capacity to work on it at this time.

Given that we are unable to fulfil this request I am closing the issue as wontfix. To request re-consideration of this decision please reopen this issue and provide additional technical details about its importance to you.

Metadata Update from @rcritten:
- Issue close_status updated to: wontfix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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