On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 14:22, Simo Sorce <s...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:10 -0600, Greg Swift wrote: > > I'm having a debate with our hostmaster. His general complaint is > > that systems like AD and FreeIPA should not be so closely tied to the > > domain name because some standard such as his group distributes > > include a hostname that may change every few years (moving datacenters > > etc). > > > > Since I am not deep in AD for FreeIPA (i just lurk the list and play > > with FreeIPA whenever I get a chance, which isn't as often as I'd > > like), does anyone have any solid points about this to help educate me > > so I can understand better, and thus hopefully get him to understand > > why its necessary? > > Choose a name that is no particularly tied to your datacenter and can be > moved with the AD/FreeIPA install. > > Keep in mind that unlike AD, FreeIPA allows your clients to use whatever > hostname they want. This comes with some manual work on your krb5.conf > files across the domain, but it is doable.
Hmm I realized you could disconnect the domain name from the DOMAIN, but thought it was generally considered a bad practice and complicated matters. If FreeIPA is that much more flexible thats exciting, sadly for others in our org, they have lots of AD though. Thanks for the response
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