Hi Dmitri
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Dmitri Pal <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/24/2014 01:04 AM, Traiano Welcome wrote: >> >> Hi List >> >> I have a large number of legacy hosts with upper-case host names, that >> I'd like to configure as IPA clients. However ipa client refuses to >> accept upper case hostnames during configuration time. >> >> I think this derives from the fact that the kerberos5 database stores >> host names in a case sensitive way and requires that the DNS hostname >> matches the server hostname case. >> >> My question is: Is it mandatory that the hostname be lower-cased, or >> is there a safe workaround that will allow IPA client to work with >> hosts that have upper case host names ? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> Traiano >> > See man sssd-ipa > > ipa_hostname (string) > Optional. May be set on machines where the hostname(5) does not > reflect the fully qualified name used in the IPA domain to identify this > host. > > AFAIR you use this setting for the cases when you want the actual machine > name be different than the one IPA has. It looks like I would have to add this parameter in the sssd.conf before running the ipa client configuration. In that case, would the configurator not overwrite this parameter ? Or is there some way to provide this option to ipa-client-install initially? > > -- > Thank you, > Dmitri Pal > > Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio > Red Hat, Inc. > > -- > Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users > Go To http://freeipa.org for more info on the project Thanks in advance, Traiano -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go To http://freeipa.org for more info on the project