[devtools] Firefox need write access to $HOME
Check that you have write acces to the user home before launching Firefox.
Firefox need to write stuff in the home directory of the user and will silency
crash when unable to do it. We add an assertion with an explicite message to
improve crash report in such situation.
from base64 import b64decode, b64encode
try:
uri, newdn = __args__
except ValueError:
print 'USAGE: cubicweb-ctl shell <instance> ldap_change_base_dn.py -- <ldap source uri> <new dn>'
print
print 'you should not have updated your sources file yet'
olddn = repo.config.sources()[uri]['user-base-dn']
assert olddn != newdn
raw_input("Ensure you've stopped the instance, type enter when done.")
for eid, extid in sql("SELECT eid, extid FROM entities WHERE source='%s'" % uri):
olduserdn = b64decode(extid)
newuserdn = olduserdn.replace(olddn, newdn)
if newuserdn != olduserdn:
print olduserdn, '->', newuserdn
sql("UPDATE entities SET extid='%s' WHERE eid=%s" % (b64encode(newuserdn), eid))
commit()
print 'you can now update the sources file to the new dn and restart the instance'