On 12/28/2013 06:50 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote: > Will Sheldon wrote: >> >> Hello :) >> >> I'm trying to setup a ubuntu 12.04.3 client running freeipa-client >> 3.2.0-0ubuntu1~precise1 form the apt repo at >> http://ppa.launchpad.net/freeipa/ppa/ubuntu >> The server is a (fully updated) centos 6.5 box running ipa-server.x86_64 >> 3.0.0-37.el6 >> >> The script mostly works on a stock install, but there is an error >> uploading SSH keys, This appears to be called from the >> ipa-client-install script line 1436: >> >> result = api.Command['host_mod'](unicode(hostname), >> >> Which generates the following output when run: >> >> stderr= >> Caught fault 901 from server https://ipa.[domain].com/ipa/xml: 2.58 >> client incompatible with 2.49 server at u'https://ipa.[domain].com/ipa/xml' >> host_mod: 2.58 client incompatible with 2.49 server at >> u'https://ipa.[domain].com/ipa/xml' >> Failed to upload host SSH public keys. >> >> I understand that this is not a critical failure and that I can manually >> upload the host keys if needed but the bit I don't understand is where >> the version numbers come from. > > The API version is baked into the client and server. We generally provide a > backwards compatible server, but right now not the client (so a new client > can't always have 100% success talking to an old server). We are actually > working on this, especially for client enrollment, to make things work more > smoothly. > >> How do I revert the api to version 2.49 to match the server? > > You'd have to modify ipapython/version.py on each client before enrollment. > For > enrollment I can't think of any side-effects, but if you ever tried the IPA > admin tool on such a client then some odd things could happen. > >> What is best practice here, should I be using a different source for the >> client install script? > > I don't know what is available for Debian/Ubuntu clients these days. It is > being worked on very hard though I think the focus is on the latest source > which explains the mismatch. > >> Is there a copy of the correct client files stashed on the server somewhere? >> Would anyone be interested in helping with development of a yum and apt >> repo on the server to make all this easier? > > The server being the IPA server, so it can distribute the client bits? An > interesting idea. > > rob >
Note that this issue was fixed in FreeIPA version 3.3.2 (upstream ticket https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3931). Thus, when using FreeIPA client 3.3.2 and later, ipa-client-install will upload the SSH keys even to the older SSH server. No other changes required. HTH, Martin _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
