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Short tip: FreeIPA - CA did not start in 300.0s

Jun 5, 2020 · 1 min read · freeipa kurztipp ·

During a recent installation of Red Hat Identity Management or FreeIPA I stumbled upon the following error message: 1DEBUG The ipa-server-install command failed, exception: RuntimeError: CA did not start in 300.0s 2ERROR CA did not start in 300.0s 3ERROR The ipa-server-install command failed. See …

Authenticate Spacewalk users with FreeIPA

Jan 26, 2018 · 3 min read · freeipa red-hat-identity-management red-hat-satellite spacewalk ·

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A fresh Spacewalk installation usually defines user accounts in a local manner - including permissions. Especially for bigger system landscapes with requirements such as Single Sign-on, this is not a practical solution. Fortunately, Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5 support authentication using FreeIPA and Red Hat …

Authenticate GitLab against FreeIPA using LDAP

Apr 27, 2017 · 2 min read · freeipa gitlab red-hat-identity-management ·

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GitLab can utilize LDAP to authenticate against a variety of directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services or FreeIPA and Red Hat Identity Management. This post describes configuring and integrating into FreeIPA. By clicking Identity > User Groups > Add within the FreeIPA interface, an …

Short tip: FreeIPA looses global DNS forwarder

Feb 13, 2017 · 1 min read · freeipa red-hat-identity-management kurztipp ·

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Recently I found out that Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) and FreeIPA tend to forgot their global DNS configuration after some upgrades. In my case, the global DNS forwarder configuration was dropped forcing external lookups to fail: 1$ ipa dnsconfig-show 2--------------------------------- 3Global DNS configuration …

Grafana LDAP authentication with FreeIPA

Oct 24, 2016 · 2 min read · freeipa grafana red-hat-identity-management ·

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Grafana offers the possibility to authenticate users against LDAP - make it quite easy to integrate the tool into existing directory services. I'm using FreeIPA as directory and authentication service in my lab and had to adjust some settings to authenticate Grafana access. The first step is to alter the main …

5 tools you should not be able to run as root

Aug 30, 2016 · 3 min read · freeipa red-hat-identity-management ·

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If you plan to restrict utilizing the root user under Linux, it is most likely that you will create sudo rules to allow certain users to execute administrative utilities. There are plenty of tools you really should not be able to run as privileged users - some examples: screen, tmux The famous terminal multiplexers GNU …

Short tip: kinit: Cannot read password while getting initial credentials

Oct 1, 2015 · 1 min read · freeipa red-hat-identity-management kurztipp ·

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While registering a client system with a FreeIPA server I recently stumbled upon the following error message: 1# ipa-client-install 2... 3User authorized to enroll computers: admin 4... 5Kerberos authentication failed 6kinit: Cannot read password while getting initial credentials After wasting quite a lot of time with …