[Freeipa-users] "Installing the client"

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, 02 Feb 2016, Simpson Lachlan wrote:
>In the docs, there is a section called "Installing the client".
>
>https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html-single/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/index.html#setting-up-clients
>
>The very first step contains language that is not explained.
>
>"For a regular user system" has one install method, and "An
>administrator machine" has another.
>
>There is no indication what an administrator machine might be used for
>- is this a replica? Is it a system that can run ipa commands on behalf
>of the ipa-server?
>
>What is the difference between a regular user system and an
>administrator machine?
If you want to administer IPA from the command line, you need to install IPA
command line tools. This is what it calls as 'administrator machine'.

For a regular client system you wouldn't be running 'ipa' command, thus
installing ipa-admintools is not needed.

I agree it is a bit terse there so it might be a good idea to file a
documentation bug against 'ipa' component of RHEL 7.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy