[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 34 Make sure that hostname specified by user is not an IP address

[Rob Crittenden]

Jan Cholasta wrote:
> This is a quick fix to make sure that the hostname passed to
> ipa-server-install, ipa-client-install and ipa-replica-prepare is not an
> IP address. The other install tools that accept a hostname as a
> parameter aren't affected, as they already either doesn't accept IP
> addresses (ipa-replica-manage, ipa-csreplica-manage) or work fine with
> them (ipa-replica-conncheck).
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1375
>
> I'm working on patch that does the (hopefully) right thing and uses a
> new type for storing hostnames, which does all the validation (similar
> to what we do with IP addresses in the installer), but I'll submit that
> later.
>
> Honza

Ack, pushed to master.

rob