[Freeipa-users] Split enrollment (adding hosts via kickstart)

[Ian Levesque]

On May 16, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:

> Ian Levesque wrote:
>> Hi Rob, et al -
>> 
>> I tried again, and am pasting all the output below. Is there something I'm missing?
> 
> Drop the = with -w. You're passing the password as =foobar.
> 
> Do not use a = with single dash options, only double-dash ones. To make it more confusing you don't have to use an equals with double-dash options either but you can. Ain't unix cli options great?
> 
> rob

Right you are! Thanks for your help, Rob - this will certainly help us with mass deployments. 

For the record, the winning combination:

ipa host-add ian-ultra24-dmz.in.hwlab --password=foobar
ipa-client-install --hostname=ian-ultra24-dmz.in.hwlab --domain=in.hwlab --password=foobar --realm=SBGRID.ORG --server=sbgrid-directory.in.hwlab --unattended

Is this documented anywhere else other than on Fedora's site? The docs I linked to are just plain wrong...

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/FreeIPA_Guide/kickstart.html

says: 

/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install --domain=EXAMPLEDOMAIN --enable-dns-updates --mkomedir --principal=HOST/$(cat /tmp/hostname.txt) -w=secret --realm=EXAMPLEREALM --server=ipaserver.example.com --unattended

Best,
Ian