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Description of problem:
[yi@aqua (RH5.8-i386) ~] ipa-client-install 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install", line 1289, in ?
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install", line 1254, in main
    logging_setup(options)
  File "/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install", line 145, in logging_setup
    filemode='w')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1218, in basicConfig
    hdlr = FileHandler(filename, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 757, in __init__
    stream = open(filename, mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/ipaclient-install.log'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ipa-client-2.1.3-2.el5_8


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. build is from here: https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/buildinfo?buildID=213082
2. yum localinstall ipa-client.rpm
3. run "ipa-client-install" as non-root user

Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2738

Is this being considered for a fix in RHEL5.8.z?  or 5.9.z in the future? or just too late for RHEL5?

Ticket 2738 was closed as a duplicate of https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/957 which was already fixed upstream:

master: 856d890bb37a9a793fdcbe0884d1e7286aeec1f5

This issues already addressed in the current shipping version. There is no plan to backport it so we are closing this bug as already addressed.