[Freeipa-users] Unable to connect to IPA server: File Not Found

[Rob Crittenden]

root wrote:
> Greetings all:
> I'm thinking I just have to bounce something (or maybe it's been long 
> enough that I'm running the command wrong, but I don't think so).
> Note that I show the error when not authenticated, and that I can 
> authenticate without error:
> [root at sandbox1 ~]# ipa-finduser admin
> Could not initialize GSSAPI: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may 
> provide more information/Ticket expired
> [root at sandbox1 ~]# kinit admin -k -t krb5.keytab
> [root at sandbox1 ~]# ipa-finduser admin
> Unable to connect to IPA server: File Not Found
> 
> I assume that the "File Not Found" is simply a poor error message.  Any 
> insight into what I need to do to fix this?
> I tried bouncing [ns-]ldap/dirsrv just in case that was the source of 
> our problem.
> NOTE:  We also use coda, and it has no difficulty authenticating to 
> [IPA] kerberos (though we are having an odd UID issue with non-admin 
> users which prompted the attempt to run some ipa-finduser queries).
> 
> Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> -Don
> {void}

Well, File Not Found has probably trickled up from somewhere, it isn't 
something we directly report, so it isn't clear where it originated. Is 
anything logged in the Apache error log when you do this command?

rob