On 18.09.20 13:04, Rafael Jeffman via FreeIPA-users wrote:

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:59 AM Ronald Wimmer via FreeIPA-users <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
Anyone using freeipa-python here? When I try to use

client.host_mod('myserver.mydomain.at', userclass='SomeUserClass')

the user class is set correctly on the host above but I do get an Exception:

   File "./modifyHosts.py", line 34, in <module>
     client.host_mod('myserver.mydomain.at', userclass='SomeUserClass')
   File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_freeipa/client_meta.py",
line 11192, in host_mod
     return self._request(method, _args, _params)
   File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_freeipa/client.py", line
335, in _request
     parse_error(error)
   File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_freeipa/exceptions.py",
line 117, in parse_error
     raise exception_class(message, code)
python_freeipa.exceptions.BadRequest: no modifications to be performed

Note, on the last line that the error is "no modifications to be performed". It used to occur to me when I tried to modify an object (in this case a "host'), but all attributes already had the same given values.

Thanks. Made no difference in my case.

host_find() returns only 100 servers whereas the FreeIPA WebGUI shows 132...

As there seems to be no other good python library the alternative would be handling JSON-RPC requests to FreeIPA on my own in a python script? Maybe I'll go that way. I just need to iterate over all registered hosts and fill the userclass attribute with host-mod.

Cheers,
Ronald