[Freeipa-users] Cleaning a host that is both present & not found

[Matthew Barr]

On Oct 11, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Steven Jones <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

> HI,
> 
> Looks like I have this at present as well.
> 
> The advice off RH support is to run an ldapdelete but Im waiting on the complete syntax off them and why its happened.
> 
> Meantime I have 2 machines in this state, no one can login.
> 
> :/
> 
> So what they have said is,
> 
> ==========
> Hello Steven, I am still going through all the data available in this case, but it looks like you should be able to fix this problem by deleting the following two entries using ldapdelete: dn: nsuniqueid=fdda5001-0cf511e2-8bfdc792-b25c661e,cn=computers,cn=accounts,dc =ods,dc=vuw,dc=ac,dc=nz dn: idnsName=vuwunicosldedt2,idnsname=ods.vuw.ac.nz,cn=dns,dc=ods,dc=vuw,dc=ac ,dc=nz
> =========


ldapdelete would have worked, but I ended up using jxplorer to do it.  Much easier for me at the time :)

(i'm on a VPN link into the DC, and had access to the ldap port directly, so I could do that.     Their advise does look correct, though, and matches where I found the problem.)

Matthew