[Freeipa-users] Can I revert back the hostname on client

[Dmitri Pal]

On 01/14/2015 03:38 AM, Petr Spacek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 14.1.2015 06:13, Rakesh Rajasekharan wrote:
>> Freeipa changes the hostname to FQDN. But in our exisitng set up that can
>> cause issues .
> Could you be more specific? It would help if we had detailed bug reports about
> this but up to know everybody just said 'I need non-FQDN hostname' but did not
> add any details :-)
>
> What doesn't work?
>
>> Can I revert back the hostname to previous value once the client
>> installation is complete.
> You might see all sorts of breakages related to Kerberos, sorry.
>
>> I am fine with server having a FQDN.
You can tell SSSD to use a different hostname instead of the one the 
host actually uses.
See SSSD man pages for that.
You might also need to do a similar thing with krb5.conf by setting 
dns_canonicalize_hostname and make sure your DNS can actually resolve 
the short hostnames to FQDNs

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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.