Bug 635919

Summary:	No description on how to connect to the gui
Product:	[Retired] freeIPA	Reporter:	Steven <steven.jones>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	David O'Brien <daobrien>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Priority:	low
Version:	1.0	CC:	benl, dpal, jgalipea, rcritten
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Description Steven 2010-09-21 02:10:05 UTC

Description of problem:

No idea how to start admin'ing the IPA server via the gui.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Edition 1


How reproducible:

Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read documentation chapter 1
  
Actual results:

Cannot login as no detail is specified.

Expected results:

Instructions on how to login.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rob Crittenden 2010-09-21 02:30:14 UTC

To configure Firefox see these instructions:

http://freeipa.org/docs/1.2/Installation_Deployment_Guide/en-US/html/sect-Installation_and_Deployment_Guide-Setting_up_the_IPA_Server-Configuring_Your_Browser.html

On the machine (and user) you are running Firefox from run: kinit admin

Then you should be able connect to https://ipa.example.com/

You really should use the FQDN of the IPA host. We do a fair bit of redirecting so it may do the right thing but kerberos is very picky about host names. If they don't match up as it expected then things won't work.

Even with an unconfigured browser going to https://ipa.example.com/ should provide some instructions for configuring Firefox and provide a button that can auto-configure the browser. You just need to trust our CA first. Javascript is very picky (and for good reason) about letting a web site change your browser configuration.

Comment 2 Rob Crittenden 2010-09-27 19:06:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 590891 ***