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Bug 753526

Summary:	IPA allows clients named localhost.localdomain, they should be refused
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Brian Cook <bcook>
Component:	ipa	Assignee:	Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.2	CC:	cvantuin, jgalipea, ksiddiqu, mkosek, nsoman
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	ipa-2.2.0-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	No documentation needed.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	857049 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-06-20 13:17:18 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	756082, 857049

Description Brian Cook 2011-11-13 05:07:59 UTC

ipa-client --install should refuse to join a machine named localhost (localhost.localdomain) to the domain as this is a 'special' name that indicates that the hostname of the server has not been set and is not for use in a network environment.

Comment 4 Rob Crittenden 2011-11-15 15:38:58 UTC

Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2112

Comment 5 Rob Crittenden 2012-01-23 20:12:00 UTC

fixed upstream:

master: f7b4eb6a0918c0b73d4b98f47dcd76fa4e8072f5

ipa-2-2: bf32ed8bf0917e1e029f9488090944143cd2dc68

Comment 8 Martin Kosek 2012-04-19 12:24:02 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
No documentation needed.

Comment 9 Kaleem 2012-05-02 06:06:38 UTC

Verified.

ipa-client-version:
[root@dhcp201-113 ~]# rpm -q ipa-client
ipa-client-2.2.0-11.el6.x86_64
[root@dhcp201-113 ~]#


[root@dhcp201-113 ~]# hostname
localhost.localdomain
[root@dhcp201-113 ~]#

[root@dhcp201-113 ~]# ipa-client-install -p admin -w Secret123 -U
Invalid hostname, 'localhost.localdomain' must not be used.
Installation failed. Rolling back changes.
IPA client is not configured on this system.
[root@dhcp201-113 ~]#

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 13:17:18 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0819.html