[Freeipa-users] FQDN Hostname Requirement

[Rob Crittenden]

freeipa at noboost.org wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Spec:
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
> ipa-server-2.2.0-16.el6.x86_64
>
> Issue:
> I made a post a while back regarding IPA and the forcing of the hostname
> to be a FQDN entry, rather than utilising `hostname --fqdn`
>
> ref: https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2012-March/msg00012.html
>
> Has this issue ever been addressed? As I've now bumped into an issue
> with RSA Securid Auth Manager 6.1, which will not work on a server with
> more than 27 characters in the hostname. Sadly our hostname does break
> this is some cases.

I think Simo's answer in that thread is still true, there are many 
Kerberized programs that use gethostname() to create principals. If you 
removed this requirement you could be opening yourself up to other issues.

rob