[Freeipa-users] ipa admin tool error "ipa: ERROR: Client is not configured. Run ipa-client-install."
Petr Viktorin
pviktori at redhat.com
Mon Jan 7 11:21:29 UTC 2013
On 01/07/2013 11:00 AM, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> hi,
>
> on a workstation *not* joined to the IPA domain but with the the ipa
> admin tools installed I get this error when trying to modify dns
> settings and I have a kerberos ticket of an admin user:
>
> $ kinit user.admin at UNIX.DOMAIN.TLD
> Password for user.admin at UNIX.DOMAIN.TLD
> $ klist
> Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_500
> Default principal: user.admin at UNIX.DOMAIN.TLD
>
> Valid starting Expires Service principal
> 01/07/13 10:47:09 01/08/13 10:47:06 krbtgt/UNIX.DOMAIN.TLD at UNIX.DOMAIN.TLD
> renew until 01/14/13 10:47:06
>
> $ ipa dnsrecord-mod unix.domain.tld ipaclient01 --ttl=300
> ipa: ERROR: Client is not configured. Run ipa-client-install.
>
> Is this 'by design'? This limitation on the cli tool does not apply to
> the web interface, by the way, that is, I can login the web interface
> without being joined to the domain and modify all kind of stuff there
> ;-).
>
> To be more specific: this is not a problem, I can run this command on
> a joined host, but I was just curious.
>
Create a config file in /etc/ipa/default.conf or ~/.ipa/default.conf (or
somewhere else and point ipa to it using the -c option). Copy the
`xmlrpc_uri` line from a config on a master or joined machine there.
ipa should work then.
--
Petr³
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