Apparently I had to manually create the nfs4 mountpoint (/share) that kereberized nfs uses before the user's share would mount. I can login as the ipa user now. Thanks everyone.
On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 11:51:27 AM Sina Owolabi <notify.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I've made a go of it! > I was able to uninstall freeipa-client, and it complained about some > leftover files, like so > > Removing freeipa-client ... > dpkg: warning: while removing freeipa-client, directory > '/var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore' not empty so not removed > I deleted and reinstalled, no problem. > I now followed the instructions over at this helpful site: > http://nadirlatif.me/installing-freeipa-client-debian/ > And now I'm joined to the domain! > Of course this does not mean all my troubles are over, trying to login as > an IPA user drops a "permission denied" error: > > Creating directory '/share/user'. > Unable to create and initialize directory '/user'. > > Permission denied > > What can I do to fix that? What am I missing? > On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 11:31:23 AM Sina Owolabi <notify.s...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi >> I cant make head or tail of the output, but here it is attached. >> :-) Sorry about the "how do I trace". I RTFM'ed myself. >> >> >> On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 11:23:00 AM Sina Owolabi <notify.s...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> How do I strace this, please? >>> >>> On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 10:59:22 AM Brian Topping <brian.topp...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Did you try strace to see what files it is choking on? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Jan 17, 2015, at 15:49, Sina Owolabi <notify.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks Tomas. >>>> >>>> List, please how do I get rid of this error: >>>> ipa-client-install --uninstall >>>> *Disabling client Kerberos and LDAP configurations* >>>> *Failed to remove krb5/LDAP configuration: * >>>> After I've deleted everything I can think of? Uninstalling freeipa >>>> doesn't help, and I can't reinstall the server. >>>> >>>> On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 6:07:06 PM Tomas Babej <tba...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 01/15/2015 03:34 AM, Sina Owolabi wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi List >>>>> >>>>> Please is it really possible to have Debian and Ubuntu serve as IPA >>>>> clients? >>>>> I've tried some instructions/guidelines on the list and they always >>>>> fail with the IPA client install being halfway completed and sssd's >>>>> configuration file moved to .deleted. >>>>> I'm really interested in getting this to work and I'll appreciate any >>>>> help I can get. Failing that are there any alternatives? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> If you're SSSD version is less than 1.9, you could try running >>>>> ipa-advise config-generic-linux-sssd-before-1-9 on the IPA server. >>>>> >>>>> This will provide setup instructions to run on the client. >>>>> >>>>> HTH, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Tomas Babej >>>>> Associate Software Engineer | Red Hat | Identity Management >>>>> RHCE | Brno Site | IRC: tbabej | freeipa.org >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>>
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