Bug 1108208

Summary:	The Synchronizing time with KDC... message looks strange between login and password prompts
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Martin Kosek <mkosek>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	Martin Kosek <mkosek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Namita Soman <nsoman>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	rcritten, rmainz, spoore
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Fixed In Version:	ipa-4.0.3-1.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Martin Kosek 2014-06-11 14:48:39 UTC

This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3957

Entering credentials is usually done as one operation. It seems strange that ipa-client-install asks for user name, then synchronizes time which introduces small delay, then asks for password:

{{{
Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]: yes
User authorized to enroll computers: admin
Synchronizing time with KDC...
Password for admin: 
Successfully retrieved CA cert
}}}

Unless there is a strong technical reason to know the user name before the time sync or not to ask for the password before the time sync, I propose to change the orde either to

{{{
User authorized to enroll computers: admin
Password for admin: 
Synchronizing time with KDC...
}}}

or to

{{{
Synchronizing time with KDC...
User authorized to enroll computers: admin
Password for admin: 
}}}

In other words, when login is prompted for and entered, without any delay password prompt should appear if the password is needed.

Comment 1 Martin Kosek 2014-06-11 15:23:25 UTC

This request is already fixed in upstream FreeIPA project. Please refer to the linked ticket for additional details and related commits.

Comment 3 Scott Poore 2015-01-27 01:35:34 UTC

Verified.

Version ::

ipa-client-4.1.0-16.el7.x86_64

Results ::

[root@rhel7-2 ~]# ipa-client-install
Discovery was successful!
Hostname: rhel7-2.example.com
Realm: EXAMPLE.COM
DNS Domain: example.com
IPA Server: rhel7-1.example.com
BaseDN: dc=example,dc=com

Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]: yes
Synchronizing time with KDC...
User authorized to enroll computers: admin
Password for admin: 
...trunc...

See time sync before user login/password prompts.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 10:11:32 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0442.html