[Freeipa-users] cant authenticate using freeipa userid on ubuntu12.04

[Rob Crittenden]

Gustavo Berman wrote:
>
> Sabin Ranjit <sabinranjit at ...> writes:
>
>>
>>
>>      hi,
>>      i followed this page for the installation of freeipa client over the
>>      ubuntu 12.04
> server.http://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2013-June/msg00091.html
>>      everything seem to go as mentioned in the page. when i get at the
>>      freeipa server with the command ipa host-find
>>      i can even see my ubuntu server listed there with "Keytab: True". The
> problem is that im not being able
>>        to authenticate with the username listed in the freeipa server.
>>        if i try to run : "su ldapuserid" ubuntu errors "unknown id:
>>        ldapuserid"
>>        i cant even ssh to the ubuntu server with the ldapuserid.
>>        what can be the possible solutions?
>>        please help. thanks.
>>        regards,
>>        sabin
>>
>
>
> Hi Sabin
> Please try my howto:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/295075/freeipa-client-on-ubuntu
>
> I assembled it from that same mail and other sources
>
> Tavo.

Sabin, if you can confirm these steps maybe we can add this to the Howto 
section on freeipa.org. Except for the localhost thing (probably 
unnecessary) and maybe messing with the version (we might agree to 
disagree on that) this looks really good.

cheers

rob