[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment

[Adam Young]

On 05/08/2011 11:57 PM, nasir nasir wrote:
>
> Adam,
>
> I truly appreciate your persistence !
>
> I tried using alien and it generated the .deb file successfully and 
> even installed the ipa client package without any error on the client 
> machine(Kubuntu 11.04). But when I run the *ipa-client-install* 
> command, it gave the following error,
>
>
> *openway at dl-360:~/rpm$ sudo ipa-client-install *
> *There was a problem importing one of the required Python modules. The*
> *error was:*
> *
> *
> *    No module named ipaclient.ipadiscovery*
>
I'm guessing that this is a 64 bit system?  It might be an arch issue.  
IU know that Debian and RH mde different choices for 32 on 64.  
RH/Fedora puts the Python code into

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/

Debian might be looking under /usr/lib/  for Python.

Try a 32bit RPM.

> *
> *
> *openway at dl-360:~/rpm$*
>
> I even created the deb file out of ipa-python package and installed it 
> on the kubuntu machine(without any error). Still, its the same. Any idea ?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Nidal
>
> --- On *Sun, 5/8/11, Adam Young /<ayoung at redhat.com>/*wrote:
>
>
>     From: Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment
>     To: "nasir nasir" <kollathodi at yahoo.com>
>     Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
>     Date: Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:39 PM
>
>     On 05/08/2011 06:20 AM, nasir nasir wrote:
>>
>>     Thanks indeed again for the reply. I went through the deployment
>>     guide and installed and configured FreeIPA 2.0 on a RHEL 6.1 beta
>>     machine for testing. I also configured the browsers on this
>>     server and a client Kubuntu machine as per the guide. But I can't
>>     find any doc which explain how to configure a client (kubuntu in
>>     my case) for single sign on or even accessing a service like nfs
>>     using the browser when native ipa-client package is not
>>     available. All the docs are focused on configuring client
>>     machines using ipa-client package. Is this possible? if so could
>>     anyone suggest me some guide lines or docs for the same ?
>>
>
>     Did you try installing the ipa-client rpms with Alien?
>
>>
>>     Thanks and Regards,
>>     Nidal
>>
>>     --- On *Mon, 5/2/11, Adam Young /<ayoung at redhat.com>
>>     </mc/compose?to=ayoung at redhat.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>>         From: Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com>
>>         </mc/compose?to=ayoung at redhat.com>
>>         Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment
>>         To: "nasir nasir" <kollathodi at yahoo.com>
>>         </mc/compose?to=kollathodi at yahoo.com>
>>         Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
>>         </mc/compose?to=freeipa-users at redhat.com>
>>         Date: Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:03 AM
>>
>>         On 05/01/2011 08:49 AM, nasir nasir wrote:
>>>         Thanks for all the replies and great suggestions! I do
>>>         appreciate it a lot.
>>>
>>>         Apologies for being a bit confusing about the cetralized
>>>         /home foder in my previous mail. What I want is that all the
>>>         users should have their /home folder stored in the storage.
>>>         This entire partition (or LUN) can be attached to my
>>>         Authentication server(i.e FreeIPA) by using iSCSI. From the
>>>         Authentication server, I am NOT looking for iSCSI to get it
>>>         mounted to the individual users' machine. I think
>>>         NFS/automount would do that(appreciate any suggestion on
>>>         this !) And whenever a new user is created, /home should be
>>>         allocated out of this partition so that whichever machine
>>>         the user is using to login later, she should be able to
>>>         access the same /home specific to her regardless of the
>>>         machine. I hope it is clear to all :-)
>>>
>>>         Thanks and regards,
>>>         Nidal
>>>
>>>             >     -- Centralized storage with iSCSI for /home folder
>>>             for each user by means of a dedicated storage
>>>             IPA manages Automount, which is possibly what you want. 
>>>             Are you going to give each user their own partition that
>>>             follows them around, or are you going to give the a home
>>>             directory on a a NAS server?  I Have to admit, the iSCSI
>>>             home mount sounds interesting.  You could probably get
>>>             automount to help you out there, but at this point I
>>>             think that you would need a separate key line for each user.
>>>
>>>             Note that iSCSI won't help you if you want to mount the
>>>             same partition on multiple clients.  For this, you
>>>             either need a distributed File System, or stick to NFS.
>>>
>>
>>
>>         Nidal,
>>
>>         OK, I'd probably do something like this:  After install IPA,
>>         add one host as an IPA client with the following switch: 
>>         --mkhomedir,, something like  ipa-client-install --mkhomedir
>>         -p admin.   Then, mount the directory that you are going to
>>         use a /home on that machine.  Once you create users in IPA,
>>         the first time you log in as that user, do so from that
>>         client, and it will attempt to create the home directory for
>>         you.    This should be the only machine that has permissions
>>         to create directories under /home.  Now, create an automount
>>         location and map, and create a key for /home
>>
>>         The instructions from our test day should get you started:
>>
>>         https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav2_automount
>>
>>
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