[Freeipa-users] "Joining realm failed because of failing XML-RPC request" FreIPA V2

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 14:45 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> McDougall, Ryan P. [mcry0802 at stcloudstate.edu] wrote:
> > When joining a client to a FreeIPA server installed on F15, I get the
> > error quoted in the subject. The install of the server went well with no
> > errors during the process. I’ve been looking all over and I can’t seem
> > to find anything related to this on the forums and I haven’t heard back
> > from anyone yet in IRC. Is this a known issue?
> 
> This is caused by a recent update to libcurl that removed its ability to 
> delegate tickets. Bugs have been opened against curl to add support for 
> delegation and a bug against xmlrpc-c to take advantage of this new API.
> 
> There is currently on ETA on a fix.
> 
> The only workaround I've come up with so far is:
> 
> - On the server: manually add a host entry for your client: ipa host-add 
> client.example.com
> - Add the --force flag to ipa-client-install. This will allow it to 
> continue past the enrolment failure
> - On the client: kinit admin
> - On the client: ipa-getkeytab -s ipa.example.com -p 
> client.example.com at EXAMPLE.COM -k /etc/krb5.keytab
> - On the client: service sssd restart
> 
> There will be no SSL server cert in /etc/pki/nssdb because certmonger 
> can't communicate with the IPA backend.

The other option is to downgrade curl to a previously working version,
although the upgrade was supposedly a security fix and the fix was to
remove this functionality ...

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York