When ipa commands are used by an Active Directory user that does not have any idoverride-user set, they return the following error message which can be misleading: $ kinit aduser@ADDOMAIN.COM $ ipa ping ipa: ERROR: cannot connect to 'https://master.ipa.com/ipa/json': Internal Server Error The fix properly handles ACIError exception received when creating the context, and now the following message can be seen: $ kinit aduser@ADDOMAIN.COM $ ipa ping ipa: ERROR: cannot connect to 'https://master.ipa.com/ipa/json': Unauthorized with the following log in /var/log/httpd/error_log: ipa: INFO: 401 Unauthorized: Insufficient access: Invalid credentials Fixes: https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8163 Reviewed-By: Alexander Bokovoy <abbra@users.noreply.github.com>