freeipa

#5601 The ipa -e skip_version_check=1 still issues incompatibility error when called against RHEL 6 server
Closed: Fixed Opened by jcholast.

Closed: Fixed
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Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7): Bug 1297811

Description of problem:
The change from bug 1211589 / ticket
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4768 introduced new option
skip_version_check which is documented in man default.conf(5) as
    skip_version_check <boolean>
        Skip client vs. server API version checking. Can lead to errors/strange
behavior when newer clients talk to older servers. Use with caution.
It works when used with RHEL 7.2 IPA client enrolled against (say) RHEL 7.1
server but does not work against RHEL 6 server.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-admintools-4.2.0-15.el7.x86_64
On server, ipa-server-3.0.0-47.el6.x86_64 is installed.
How reproducible:
Deterministic.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ipa user-find
2. ipa -e skip_version_check=1 user-find
Actual results:
# ipa user-find
ipa: ERROR: 2.156 client incompatible with 2.49 server at
u'https://ipa.example.com/ipa/xml'
# ipa -e skip_version_check=1 user-find
ipa: ERROR: 2.51 client incompatible with 2.49 server at
u'https://ipa.example.com/ipa/xml'
Expected results:
# ipa user-find
ipa: ERROR: 2.156 client incompatible with 2.49 server at
u'https://ipa.example.com/ipa/xml'
# ipa -e skip_version_check=1 user-find
users listed, no error
Additional info:

master:

  • 6b2b173a4d6b1cd8789e87d0392dd86c980f858a ipalib: assume version 2.0 when skip_version_check is enabled

ipa-4-3:

  • 51d5150b9b5ffe6ff5f77230a389a9091f28ce48 ipalib: assume version 2.0 when skip_version_check is enabled

ipa-4-2:

  • 7a4a3b099e82fc566d3f353d42009a5f0ef6be18 ipalib: assume version 2.0 when skip_version_check is enabled

Metadata Update from @jcholast:
- Issue assigned to jcholast
- Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 4.2.4
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