On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 05:16 +0300, Craig T wrote: > Hi, > > Server Side: > RHEL6.2 > ipa-admintools-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64 > ipa-client-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64 > ipa-pki-ca-theme-9.0.3-7.el6.noarch > ipa-pki-common-theme-9.0.3-7.el6.noarch > ipa-python-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64 > ipa-server-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64 > ipa-server-selinux-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64 > > > Client Side Config: > Centos 6.2 > ipa-client-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64 > ipa-python-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64 > > > Issue: > IPA (via sssd) requires that a hostname (as returned by the `hostname` > commmand) be fully qualified. > > This requirement has caused us no end of grief due to ripple effects not > related to IPA, it breaks other software we use which expects hostname > to be not fully qualified. > > We don't understand why IPA & sssd require that a machine's hostname be > fully qualified when `hostname --fqdn` can be used instead? > > In our case we had hostname setup to be the machine name as in: > > # hostname > foo > # dnsdomainname > bar.com.au > # hostname --fqdn > foo.bar.com.au > > Why doesn't IPA & SSD use the value returned by `hostname --fqdn`? > > Why must `hostname` itself be fully qualified when `hostname --fqdn` is > available?
I think this requirement is only in place during ipa-client-install. sssd.conf has an option 'ipa_hostname=foo.bar.com.au' which it will use regardless of the value that 'hostname' returns. Is there some other place I'm missing? If so, that's probably a bug and should be reported as such.
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