Re: [Freeipa-users] delegation questions: how to reset password for subordinate?

2012-12-28 Thread David Copperfield
Hi Simo,  That works perfectly. Thanks a lot. --David From: Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 5:51 AM Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users

[Freeipa-users] replication procedure and status check?

2012-12-28 Thread David Copperfield
Hi howdy,  Is there a nagios check for replication check among IPA servers and replicas? If not, is there a way to test the replica status through some files or underlying LDAP command outputs? I have one test environment with a IPA server on a Vmware instance, two IPA replicas created from

[Freeipa-users] getent netgroup users doesn't work on centos 6, but works on centos 5

2012-12-27 Thread David Copperfield
Hi howdy,  I've migrated some NIS netgroups from my old openLDAP to IPA 2.2.0, it imported all the old data without prompting problems. But now the issues are at the client side:  redhat 5.8 clients can see all host netgroups and user netgroups without problems. while redhat 6.3 clients can

[Freeipa-users] delegation questions: how to reset password for subordinate?

2012-12-26 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  What are the user attributes that A manager should be granted with readwrite permissions to reset passwords for subordinate employees? The typical implementation case: managers need to take care of password reset requests for their subordinate employees.  I select 'userpassword'

[Freeipa-users] freeIPA 3.1.0 for Redhat Enterprise 6.3?

2012-12-20 Thread David Copperfield
Hi Rob and all, Can FreeIPA be compiled and installed on Redhat Enterprise 6.3?  Or I have to upgrade/install some underlying packages first? Thanks. --David From: Johan Petersson johan.peters...@sscspace.com To: Sigbjorn Lie sigbj...@nixtra.com Cc:

[Freeipa-users] Any way to delegate subordinate account management to managers?

2012-12-19 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  Just wonder whether there is a way to delegate to managers the authority/permissions to manage his/her subordinate user accounts? Similar to host/services delegation. Please elaborate if there is a way to reach this or similar. Let's say, we create a user group of subordinate

Re: [Freeipa-users] Any way to delegate subordinate account management to managers?

2012-12-19 Thread David Copperfield
to managers? On 12/19/2012 05:11 PM, David Copperfield wrote: Hi all,  Just wonder whether there is a way to delegate to managers the authority/permissions to manage his/her subordinate user accounts? Similar to host/services delegation. Please elaborate if there is a way to reach this or similar

[Freeipa-users] Backup and Restore procedures for IPA 2.2.0?

2012-12-18 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,   Is the backup and restore procedure for IPA available now? It's rumored months back that some one was working on it but not sure what is the progress on it. Please shed a light if you have any ideas.  I'm running the default latest 2.2.0 IPA on Redhat/Centos 6.3. Thanks. David

Re: [Freeipa-users] Backup and Restore procedures for IPA 2.2.0?

2012-12-18 Thread David Copperfield
: [Freeipa-users] Backup and Restore procedures for IPA 2.2.0? On 12/18/2012 01:39 PM, David Copperfield wrote: Hi all,   Is the backup and restore procedure for IPA available now? It's rumored months back that some one was working on it but not sure what is the progress

[Freeipa-users] How to promote 2.2.0 replica(installed with --setup-ca) to primary master?

2012-06-12 Thread David Copperfield
Hi Rob, Rich and all,  After read through all the mails in the list and the 2.2.0 document, It is still not clear how to promote a IPA replica to master after the master is dead.   The basic setup is:   IPA 2.2.0 Master A; and IPA 2.2.0 replica B installed from A with '--setup-ca' option.

[Freeipa-users] IPA 2.2.0 document inaccuracy

2012-06-12 Thread David Copperfield
For the replication removal steps documented at http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6-Beta/html/Identity_Management_Guide/removing-replica.html.   The step 3 is inaccurate: 'del' should be 'disconnect' instead, otherwise oops -- all other 3 matsers/replicas are suddenly

[Freeipa-users] Fixed: time drift issue-- Re: Bug or feature? IPA replicas at the beginning can not see other replicas installed later

2012-05-29 Thread David Copperfield
with time issues, the IPA installation works without a glitch. This is definitely a lesson on IPA installation: date/time control is the mandatory task. Thanks. --David From: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com; Rich

[Freeipa-users] 2.1.3 and 2.2.0: how to do IPA replica promotion?

2012-05-21 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  Any one has successfully do a IPA replica promotion when IPA master(Hub) failed, by following the IPA replica document for 2.1.3 and 2.2.0?  I've tried at my side and see that all the steps involved are very confusing and may be out-of-dated. my IPA master is installed with Dogtag,

[Freeipa-users] Bug or feature? IPA replicas at the beginning can not see other replicas installed later

2012-05-19 Thread David Copperfield
Hi Rich, Rob and all,  I'm trying to test the IPA replica restoration solutions, with a daily IPA replica backup, following your steps in another email.  But I got interrupted by another problem popped up. The problem is here: (all IPA masters are replicas are 2.1.3 on redhat 6.2).  The same

Re: [Freeipa-users] Bug or feature? IPA replicas at the beginning can not see other replicas installed later

2012-05-19 Thread David Copperfield
replica via IPA master hub? How long it takes, etc. Thanks. --David From: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com To: Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com; d...@redhat.com d...@redhat.com; Rob Crittenden rcrit...@redhat.com Cc: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users

[Freeipa-users] Any ways for IPA users to reset expired passwords by themselves over web?

2012-05-18 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  Is there any Web interfaces for IPA users to reset their expired password over web? Currently we let test users to ssh/login to a particular Linux server, and sssd will let the users to authenticate with their old expired password and then reset to newer password.  the IPA web UI

[Freeipa-users] Strange error messages on IPA Master

2012-05-18 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  I've the following messages logged on my IPA master server's /var/log/dirsvr/slapd-EXAMPLE.COM/errors log file: [17/May/2012:04:02:42 -0700] _entry_set_tombstone_rdn - Failed to convert DN cn=CA to RDN [17/May/2012:04:02:42 -0700] id2entry - str2entry returned NULL for id 128,

[Freeipa-users] What to do next???: IPA replica host entry is removed on web UI by mistake

2012-05-16 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  I accidentally removed one of my IPA replica host on IPA web UI by mistake, on the host list I planed to remove ipaclient02.example.com, but accidentally the mouse moved to ipareplica02.example.com and the latter got removed without a prompt. I realized the mistake and tried to

Re: [Freeipa-users] What to do next???: IPA replica host entry is removed on web UI by mistake

2012-05-16 Thread David Copperfield
into one? Thanks. --David From: JR Aquino jr.aqu...@citrix.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: FreeIPAUsers freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] What to do next???: IPA replica host entry

[Freeipa-users] Still not working -- Re: What to do next???: IPA replica host entry is removed on web UI by mistake

2012-05-16 Thread David Copperfield
=meToipareplica01.example.com (ipareplica01:389): Replication bind with GSSAPI auth resumed Thanks. --David From: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com To: JR Aquino jr.aqu...@citrix.com Cc: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, May 16

Re: [Freeipa-users] Still not working -- Re: What to do next???: IPA replica host entry is removed on web UI by mistake

2012-05-16 Thread David Copperfield
with GSSAPI auth resumed [16/May/2012:16:18:39 -0700] NSMMReplicationPlugin - agmt=cn=meToipareplica01.example.com (ipareplica01:389): Replication bind with GSSAPI auth resumed --David From: JR Aquino jr.aqu...@citrix.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: JR

[Freeipa-users] Please help: What the purposes of '--usercat' and '--hostcat' options to IPA net groups?

2012-05-14 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  The online manual says that the '--usercat' means 'User category the rule applies to';  '--hostcat' has the similar explanation. But I still don't understand how that could be used in real life and when/where to use the options.  Could anyone please shed a light on this? Thanks a

Re: [Freeipa-users] backup/restore IPA servers with db2ldap.pl, ldap2db.pl ???

2012-05-11 Thread David Copperfield
Please feel free to do it. Thanks. --David From: Dmitri Pal d...@redhat.com To: Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com Cc: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com; Rob Crittenden rcrit...@redhat.com; E Deon Lackey dlac...@redhat.com; freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa

[Freeipa-users] Please help: Re: How to rebuild IPA master?

2012-05-10 Thread David Copperfield
...@redhat.com] on behalf of David Copperfield [cao2...@yahoo.com] *Sent:* Thursday, 10 May 2012 11:04 a.m. *To:* Rob Crittenden; Freeipa-users@redhat.com *Subject:* [Freeipa-users] How to rebuild IPA master? Hi all, I've a IPA master/replica setup in our development environment. Unfortunately

Re: [Freeipa-users] backup/restore IPA servers with db2ldap.pl, ldap2db.pl ???

2012-05-10 Thread David Copperfield
. Thanks a lot. --David     From: Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com; Rob Crittenden rcrit...@redhat.com; Petr Spacek pspa...@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, May 10

Re: [Freeipa-users] backup/restore IPA servers with db2ldap.pl, ldap2db.pl ???

2012-05-10 Thread David Copperfield
replica, an result that is different from backup, and different from IPA master.  Please let me know if there are any other options/steps to follow. Thanks. --David From: Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc

Re: [Freeipa-users] backup/restore IPA servers with db2ldap.pl, ldap2db.pl ???

2012-05-10 Thread David Copperfield
rmegg...@redhat.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: E Deon Lackey dlac...@redhat.com; Petr Spacek pspa...@redhat.com; Rob Crittenden rcrit...@redhat.com; freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] backup/restore IPA

Re: [Freeipa-users] Please help: Any way to turn off IPA creation of private user group?

2012-05-09 Thread David Copperfield
a lot. --David From: Rob Crittenden rcrit...@redhat.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: Petr Spacek pspa...@redhat.com; freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Please

[Freeipa-users] How to rebuild IPA master?

2012-05-09 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  I've a IPA master/replica setup in our development environment. Unfortunately our IPA master crashed, the replica is working fine. Now I have the IPA master re-imaged.  What are the steps I have to follow to re-create the IPA master from running IPA replica? Before crash the IPA

Re: [Freeipa-users] IPA replica server rebuilding failed with 'Invalid credentials' error.

2012-05-08 Thread David Copperfield
tickets are involved, and where they are stored. Thanks. --David - From: Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 6:08 AM Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] IPA

[Freeipa-users] No Dogtag certificate system installed on slave IPA servers installed

2012-05-07 Thread David Copperfield
Hi,  I installed a master IPA server with dogtag certificate system installed; then use ipa-replica-prepare and ipa-replica-install to install two IPA replica servers. The two replicas are installed and 'ipa-replica-manage' commands shows that user/group data replication link is established

[Freeipa-users] Can I change new users' default group from 'ipausers' to some thing else?

2012-05-07 Thread David Copperfield
Hi,  Can I change the default user group for new users to something else? and disable automatically creation of private groups?  Basically I migrates hundreds of Linux accounts from openldap to IPA, and those users have a default group 'exampleGroup' with GID 500. And it is company policy to

[Freeipa-users] Please help: Any way to turn off IPA creation of private user group?

2012-05-07 Thread David Copperfield
Hi folks,  Are there any way to turn off IPA automatic creation of private user group? We use a common user group like ‘nis-wheel’, and completely disabled private groups in openldap before migration. Thanks. --David  ___ Freeipa-users mailing list

[Freeipa-users] IPA replica server rebuilding failed with 'Invalid credentials' error.

2012-05-07 Thread David Copperfield
I have a IPA replica server with disk problems, and then it is reimaged and rebuild. But when the IPA replica function is rebuilt, it reports the following problem: [root@ipareplica02 ipa]# ipa-replica-install --no-ntp /var/lib/ipa/replica-info-ipareplica02.example.com.gpg ...   [21/29]:

Re: [Freeipa-users] IPA replica server rebuilding failed with 'Invalid credentials' error.

2012-05-07 Thread David Copperfield
RuntimeError(Failed to start replication) Your system may be partly configured. Run /usr/sbin/ipa-server-install --uninstall to clean up. --Guolin From: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com To: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com Sent: Monday, May

Re: [Freeipa-users] IPA replica server rebuilding failed with 'Invalid credentials' error.

2012-05-07 Thread David Copperfield
: master ipamaster.example.com: master [root@ipamaster .ssh]# --David From: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com To: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users@redhat.com; d...@redhat.com d...@redhat.com; E Deon Lackey dlac...@redhat.com Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 8:41 PM

Re: [Freeipa-users] Confused/lost at promoting a replica into a master

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
Hi Deon and all, Hi follks,   I'm completely lost at reading the IPA document on how to promote a IPA replica into master IPA. When I'm try to follow the steps listed in the chapter '16.8.1 Promoting a Replica with a Dogtag Certificate System CA' at the link

[Freeipa-users] Password migrating into IPA with SSSD failed

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
Hi folks,  Tried serveral times to do the password migration following documented steps at http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/Migrating_from_a_Directory_Server_to_IPA.html#migr-kerb, and every time it failed. A solid example will be very

[Freeipa-users] any methods to import Kerberos password hashes into IPA?

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
Hi all,  Just wonder if anyone has migrated password hashes from  standalone Kerberos V servers into IPA servers before, assume that they share a same Kerberos Realm name. Bother original standalone kerberos server, and IPA servers uses the same version kerberos V daemons. So if there is a

Re: [Freeipa-users] Password migrating into IPA with SSSD failed

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
The existing document states all the steps as listed below.     A user tries to log into a machine with SSSD.     SSSD attempts to perform Kerberos authentication against the     IPA server.     Even though the user exists in the system, the authentication     will fail

[Freeipa-users] migration of netgroups into IPA ??

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
Hi folks,  We have quite a bunch of netgroups which are hosted on openldap server presently, and now it is time to migrate them into freeIPA. The NIS triples are in the format:  (-, username, - ) or  (hostname001, - , - ) And these openldap netgroups are used for variable purposes, host

Re: [Freeipa-users] Confused/lost at promoting a replica into a master

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
Hi Deon, Dmitri, and all, Hi follks,   I'm completely lost at reading the IPA document on how to promote a IPA replica into master IPA. When I'm try to follow the steps listed in the chapter '16.8.1 Promoting a Replica with a Dogtag Certificate System CA' at the link

[Freeipa-users] freeIPA bug: Kerberos clients fails taking to IPA server after ipa-client-install

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
Hi folks,  During migration existing Kerberos/LDAP setup clients to IPA, after 'ipa-client-install' command is run and reports successful migration, we found that the client fails to talk with IPA server.  The symptom is: in the /var/log/messages file at IPA client side, we can see the

Re: [Freeipa-users] Confused/lost at promoting a replica into a master

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
Hi Rich, Thanks. Those are really helpful. Though I think I've to learn the underlying 389 Directory Server part and become an expert as well.  :) --David From: Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com To: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com Cc: freeipa-users

Re: [Freeipa-users] Confused/lost at promoting a replica into a master

2012-04-30 Thread David Copperfield
-EXAMPLE-COM $@ ./ns-slapd db2ldif -D /etc/dirsrv/slapd-EXAMPLE-COM -a $ldif_file $@ [root@ipaclient09 scripts-EXAMPLE-COM]# --David From: David Copperfield cao2...@yahoo.com To: Rich Megginson rmegg...@redhat.com Cc: freeipa-users@redhat.com freeipa-users

Re: [Freeipa-users] What are the main purposes of Dogtag certificate system inside IPA

2012-04-27 Thread David Copperfield
From: Dmitri Pal d...@redhat.com Let us teake one a time. Dogtag is the certificate system. Web services and many other servers use certificates for SSL/TLS peer-to-peer confidentiality and authentication. The certificates needs to be issued so IPA can issue certs for those services in your

[Freeipa-users] Confused/lost at promoting a replica into a master

2012-04-27 Thread David Copperfield
Hi follks,  I'm completely lost at reading the IPA document on how to promote a IPA replica into master IPA. When I'm try to follow the steps listed in the chapter '16.8.1 Promoting a Replica with a Dogtag Certificate System CA' at the link

[Freeipa-users] IPA Bug??: IPA replica installation problem on IPV4-only nodes

2012-04-26 Thread David Copperfield
IPA Replica installation fails on IPV4 Linux box, The exception/messages on screen are: ... error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol ... After looking into the python code, it is found out that the IPA program tried to test both IPV4 and IPv6 address families, and it

Re: [Freeipa-users] Manually installed IPA clients failes to run 'ipa user-find', 'ipa host-find', etc.

2012-04-26 Thread David Copperfield
Hi, Stephen,   Thanks for your reply, and it works great, though I still have one question around the host cert -- what are the typical usage senarios of host cert for IPA clients? On 4/26/12 6:01 PM, Stephen Ingram sbing...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:51 PM, hshhs caca

[Freeipa-users] Problem: How to download the keytab from IPA without resetting/regenerating a new one??

2012-04-26 Thread David Copperfield
Hi,  Just have a silly case where I've to download the existing version keytab for a service principal. It is download only -- not recreate a new version and download the new version which ipa-getkeytab does. -- ipa-getkeytab command name seems a little bit misleading because it does both