From 2151ab02c19d0a74d90d3784a1ac1b14877a7b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislav Laznicka <slaznick@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:25:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] py3: fix caless to CA promotion on replica

https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/4985

Reviewed-By: Fraser Tweedale <ftweedal@redhat.com>
---
 ipaserver/install/ca.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ipaserver/install/ca.py b/ipaserver/install/ca.py
index c68390e7e..1f295f73a 100644
--- a/ipaserver/install/ca.py
+++ b/ipaserver/install/ca.py
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ external_ca_file = None
 
 
 def subject_validator(valid_attrs, value):
-    v = unicode(value, 'utf-8')
+    if not isinstance(value, unicode):
+        v = unicode(value, 'utf-8')
+    else:
+        v = value
     if any(ord(c) < 0x20 for c in v):
         raise ValueError("must not contain control characters")
     if '&' in v: