[Freeipa-users] Freeipa and FQDN requirement

[Ilan Green]

Thanks, 
The issue per customer is having loads of legacy applications programmed to use short host names - it will be cumbersome to fix it 

Ilan Green 
Senior Technical Account Manager - EMEA 
Red Hat 
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email: igreen at redhat.com 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Petr Spacek" <pspacek at redhat.com>
> To: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 4:01:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Freeipa and FQDN requirement

> On 25.7.2016 14:49, Ilan Green wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Customer wants to switch between the IPA server FQDN and short name in
> > /etc/hosts (having the short name first) post IPA install?
> >
> > Can anyone please confirm that the suggestions & reservations listed by
> > Simo Sorce in the following thread still apply - i.e. no RFE was ever
> > applied yet?
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2014-August/thread.html#00079
> >
> > mainly:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2014-August/thread.html#00104
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2014-August/thread.html#00105

> This might or might not work, we do not test this scenario.

> In any case it goes directly against procedures in official docs:

> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/installing-ipa.html#dns-reqs

> ... so do not be surprised if things break.

> In general we strongly recommend to use a dedicated machine for IdM server
> for
> security reasons. There should be no technical reason not to use FQDN
> hostname
> for a dedicated VM as the requirement for short names as hostname usually
> comes from crappy applications.

> --
> Petr^2 Spacek

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