On a FreeIPA directory, you can have some attributes to store images.
Typically the jpegphoto attribute can be used for the user avatars.
But the webUI doesn't have a widget designed for this type of binary element...
By default you can only use a textarea widget to edit the base64 encoded data.
The FreeIPA web interface is written with a Javascript framework that can be extended by plugins to provide some additional elements.
The file widget_picture.js define a new type of widget for the FreeIPA webUI.
It is designed to work with attributes containing binary data of a picture (Jpeg, PNG...).
If offers a suitable interface to edit image with:
- An image HTML tag to display the current data (read-only mode or preview for edit)
- An file input HTML tag to select a local image file to upload into the attribute
You can use the shell script ./ipa-plugins-installer.sh to install the FreeIPA plugins.
If you only want to install the Javascript widget to manage picture fields in the UI:
./ipa-plugins-installer.sh widget_picture --reload
Or if you want to install all plugins provided, including the use of the jpegphoto attribute on users:
./ipa-plugins-installer.sh --all --reload
Note: the plugins are developed, tested and used with FreeIPA version 4.8 and 4.10.
See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (AGPL).