[Freeipa-users] ipa-client-install

[Martin Basti]

On 09.06.2016 22:36, David Zabner wrote:
> Occassionally in our system we will see a failure in ipa-client-install script and the cleanup will leave around the host in ipa.
> This means that all future client installs fail because the host already exists.
> Is there any way to make sure that failure’s cause the host to be cleaned up?
> Is there a command I can run that will delete the host that does not require the client to be installed?
>
> Thanks for the assistance,
> David
>

Hello,

you can use ipa host-del <hostname> to remove client that failed to do 
cleanup properly.

or you can use ipa-client-install --force-join

Martin