Install FreeIPA Client on Ubuntu 18.04; Enable Automatically Create Home Directory; Verify FreeIPA Client Installation; Testing; Step 1 – Add Client DNS Record. First of all, we need to add the DNS record of the client host to the FreeIPA server. Login to the FreeIPA server and authenticate to the Kerberos admin using the following command. Ubuntu 18.04: FreeIPA (01) Configure FreeIPA Server (02) Add FreeIPA User Accounts (03) Configure FreeIPA Client (04) Basic Operation for User Management.
Does anyone have a good guide to get freeipa client installed and running on Ubuntu 13.04?
Just so I head off everyone up front, yes I know freeipa-client is a package, yes I know it has the ipa-client-install in it, yes I know the documentation is on freeipa.org.
With that said, the package does not install all the packages that are needed, the script barely rarely runs to completion and if it does, it doesn't work, and the documents for a manual install just flat out don't work. This is the 3rd Ubuntu machine I have installed it on and not a single one have come online the same way. This third one is a 13.04 machine and its just flat out refusing to work. Does anyone have a guide?
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This is what I do in Ubuntu 12.04 for a freeipa server 3.0.0
- Install repos for sssd and freeipa-client
- Update or verify fqdn in /etc/hosts, you should have a line like this:
- Verify that your /etc/resolv.conf has a correct configuration and it is able to resolve freeipa generated entries for that domain, example:
- Install necessary packages
- Remove default configuration file
- Create this folders or the script won't work
- Verify that you have a woking ntp client (configure /etc/ntp.conf)
- Backup and revert reported version of ipapython so keys will upload
- Make --mkhomedir functional
- Finally, install client as root and answer installer questions
- Restart sssd or reboot
- ssh to that machine with a freeipa user so the home directory will be created
![Client Client](/uploads/1/2/5/5/125517909/979173996.png)
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