[Freeipa-users] changing domain name

[Greg Swift]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 14:22, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:10 -0600, Greg Swift wrote:
> > I'm having a debate with our hostmaster.  His general complaint is
> > that systems like AD and FreeIPA should not be so closely tied to the
> > domain name because some standard such as his group distributes
> > include a hostname that may change every few years (moving datacenters
> > etc).
> >
> > Since I am not deep in AD for FreeIPA (i just lurk the list and play
> > with FreeIPA whenever I get a chance, which isn't as often as I'd
> > like), does anyone have any solid points about this to help educate me
> > so I can understand better, and thus hopefully get him to understand
> > why its necessary?
>
> Choose a name that is no particularly tied to your datacenter and can be
> moved with the AD/FreeIPA install.
>
> Keep in mind that unlike AD, FreeIPA allows your clients to use whatever
> hostname they want. This comes with some manual work on your krb5.conf
> files across the domain, but it is doable.


Hmm I realized you could disconnect the domain name from the DOMAIN, but
thought it was generally considered a bad practice and complicated
matters.  If FreeIPA is that much more flexible thats exciting, sadly for
others in our org, they have lots of AD though.

Thanks for the response
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