[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0010 Add 'host' setting into default.conf configuration file

[Rob Crittenden]

David Kupka wrote:
> On 08/26/2014 03:08 PM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dne 26.8.2014 v 13:01 David Kupka napsal(a):
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4481
>>
>> Doing this will break ipa-client-automount and ipa-certupdate, because
>> they assume that api.env.host contains the hostname of the local system
>> (which is the default value).
> 
> It looked suspiciously simple so I could expect that there is some catch.
>>
>> There is obviously some confusion about what the option should represent
>> (documentation says server hostname, code does client hostname), IMO we
>> should resolve that first.
> 
> Ok, are there any suggestions? What is the desired state?

AIUI the server option is deprecated because it wasn't being used, not
that it needed to be replaced. I believe that in most cases the server
name is pulled from the xmlrpc_uri.

host has always meant the local host name.

I think the man page is wrong.

rob