[Freeipa-users] Error: Fedora 18 client to IPA Server 2.2.0?

[Rob Crittenden]

freeipa at noboost.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone had success with installing the IPA client on Fedora 18 (with SeLinux disabled)?
>
> Server:
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
> * ipa-server-2.2.0-16.el6.x86_64
>
> Client:
> Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
> * freeipa-client-3.1.0-2.fc18.x86_64
>
> Error:
> I installed with the debug flags and it is technically a complete
> install, however uid and gid's don't look up correctly.
> e.g.
> getent passwd <username> - comes back blank
>
> &
>
> #Instead of working out the uid/gid, it just shows the number.
> [root at craigvm-fedora18 home]# ls -la | grep craig
> drwx------  45   365   132 16384 Jan 22 13:16 craig
>
>
> Only Errors during the install I could find:
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z INFO Configured /etc/krb5.conf for IPA realm
> EXAMPLE.COM
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z DEBUG Starting external process
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z DEBUG args=keyctl search @s user
> ipa_session_cookie:host/craigvm-fedora18.example.com at EXAMPLE.COM
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z DEBUG Process finished, return code=1
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z DEBUG stdout=
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z DEBUG stderr=keyctl_search: Required key not
> available
>
> ---
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z DEBUG Caught fault 3008 from server
> https://sysvm-ipa.example.com/ipa/xml: invalid 'sshpubkey':
> must be binary data
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z INFO host_mod: invalid 'sshpubkey': must be binary
> data
> 2013-01-22T02:42:13Z WARNING Failed to upload host SSH public keys.
> ----

It sounds like sssd isn't communicating with ipa. One of the last steps 
of the client install is to use getent to look up the admin user. This 
should also be in the client install log. Did that succeed?

rob