[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0034 Improve handling of options in ipa-client-install

[Tomas Babej]

On 06/06/2013 03:45 PM, Jan Pazdziora wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:14:36PM +0200, Ana Krivokapic wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The attached patch should improve handling of client re-enrollment
>> related options of ipa-client-install.
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3686
> [...]
>
>>   
>> +    if options.keytab and options.principal:
>> +        root_logger.error("Options 'principal' and 'keytab' cannot be used "
>> +                          "together.")
>> +        return CLIENT_INSTALL_ERROR
>> +
> I know that this check only explains what happens later in the code
> but isn't using custom principal _plus_ a keytab for that principal
> a valid combination? Right now, it's either principal + password, or
> keytab and from that keytab a specific host/* principal. Can't it be
> ptincipal + keytab?
>
Currently only the host keytab is supported. This is described
in the man pages / or shows up with --help option, so there should
be no confusion.

See http://www.freeipa.org/page/V3/Forced_client_re-enrollment

The use case was to have a way how to automatically re-enroll
a host that would not need sticking admin's password in the script.

Tomas