[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04

[Sina Owolabi]

Apparently I had to manually create the nfs4 mountpoint (/share) that
kereberized nfs uses before the user's share would mount. I can login as
the ipa user now.
Thanks everyone.

On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 11:51:27 AM Sina Owolabi <notify.sina at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think I've made a go of it!
> I was able to uninstall freeipa-client, and it complained about some
> leftover files, like so
>
> Removing freeipa-client ...
> dpkg: warning: while removing freeipa-client, directory
> '/var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore' not empty so not removed
> I deleted and reinstalled, no problem.
> I now followed the instructions over at this helpful site:
> http://nadirlatif.me/installing-freeipa-client-debian/
> And now I'm joined to the domain!
> Of course this does not mean all my troubles are over, trying to login as
> an IPA user drops a "permission denied" error:
>
> Creating directory '/share/user'.
> Unable to create and initialize directory '/user'.
>
> Permission denied
>
> What can I do to fix that? What am I missing?
> On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 11:31:23 AM Sina Owolabi <notify.sina at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I cant make head or tail of the output, but here it is attached.
>> :-) Sorry about the "how do I trace". I RTFM'ed myself.
>>
>>
>> On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 11:23:00 AM Sina Owolabi <notify.sina at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How do I strace this, please?
>>>
>>> On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 10:59:22 AM Brian Topping <brian.topping at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you try strace to see what files it is choking on?
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 17, 2015, at 15:49, Sina Owolabi <notify.sina at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Tomas.
>>>>
>>>> List, please how do I get rid of this error:
>>>> ipa-client-install --uninstall
>>>> *Disabling client Kerberos and LDAP configurations*
>>>> *Failed to remove krb5/LDAP configuration: *
>>>> After I've deleted everything I can think of? Uninstalling freeipa
>>>> doesn't help, and I can't reinstall the server.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 6:07:06 PM Tomas Babej <tbabej at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/15/2015 03:34 AM, Sina Owolabi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi List
>>>>>
>>>>> Please is it really possible to have Debian and Ubuntu serve as IPA
>>>>> clients?
>>>>> I've tried some instructions/guidelines on the list and they always
>>>>> fail with the IPA client install being halfway completed and sssd's
>>>>> configuration file moved to .deleted.
>>>>> I'm really interested in getting this to work and I'll appreciate any
>>>>> help I can get. Failing that are there any alternatives?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're SSSD version is less than 1.9, you could try running
>>>>> ipa-advise config-generic-linux-sssd-before-1-9 on the IPA server.
>>>>>
>>>>> This will provide setup instructions to run on the client.
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Tomas Babej
>>>>> Associate Software Engineer | Red Hat | Identity Management
>>>>> RHCE | Brno Site | IRC: tbabej | freeipa.org
>>>>>
>>>>>  --
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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