[Freeipa-users] Reinstalling a host without deleting

[Dmitri Pal]

On 11/14/2011 06:40 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a 'nice' way to reinstall a host? i.e. The host has already
> been installed in FreeIPA and for whatever reason I need to reinstall
> the OS, so I have a clean system and the host is already enrolled on
> the server.
>
> ipa-client-install fails with "Host already enrolled" and I have to
> connect to an enrolled client, remove the host, and then return to
> install the client.
>
> Would it be possible to have a '--reinstall' option to
> ipa-client-install? It wouldn't have to add the host into IPA, just
> configure the files and get the keytab.
>
> Looking at the manpage, maybe I'm just looking for the --force option
> to force the config files, and ipa-getkeytab. Is there anything else I
> need to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
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Opened a ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2106

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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