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Bug 854325 - Time synchronization is disabled in ipa-client-install
Summary: Time synchronization is disabled in ipa-client-install
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ipa
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Rob Crittenden
QA Contact: Namita Soman
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-04 16:08 UTC by Dmitri Pal
Modified: 2013-02-21 09:17 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ipa-3.0.0-6.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-21 09:17:31 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0528 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: ipa security, bug fix and enhancement update 2013-02-21 08:22:21 UTC

Description Dmitri Pal 2012-09-04 16:08:28 UTC 
This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3048

On client install, ntpdate is called in debug mode (-d), which disables its functionality. This means install will fail if clocks are not synced.
Comment 1 Martin Kosek 2012-09-04 16:35:35 UTC 
Fixed upstream:
master: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/5bcbe1df3719eab06eebd930bef0077c34fc5b38
ipa-3-0: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/changeset/a98def863d03e4d978e63ab42eec570fb3629bf8
Comment 5 Rob Crittenden 2012-12-06 13:48:51 UTC 
The version banner is printed when the -v (verbose) flag is used. This is expected.
Comment 6 Michael Gregg 2012-12-06 16:48:04 UTC 
That does seem to be the case. 

Any ideas on how I would be able to detect when ntpdate is called with the debug flag? I am supposed to write a test to check.
Comment 7 Rob Crittenden 2012-12-06 19:14:04 UTC 
You could modify the system time and see if it gets fixed after ipa-client-install. This wouldn't happen with the debug flag.
Comment 8 Michael Gregg 2012-12-06 23:06:47 UTC 
That sounds like a good plan. I'll go implement it.
Comment 9 Michael Gregg 2012-12-14 03:08:17 UTC 
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:: [   LOG    ] :: ipa-client-install-33-A [Negative] Verify that ntpdate was not called with the -d option
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:: [19:54:05] ::  Current hour is 19, Machine time is Mon Dec 10 19:54:05 EST 2012
19
:: [   PASS   ] :: Make sure the machine time contains the current hour.
'71fd1967-add8-42fb-a0a8-87d6ce19d5a8'
ipa-client-install-33-A-Negative-Verify-that-ntpdate-was-not-called-with-the-d-option result: PASS
   metric: 0
   Log: /tmp/beakerlib-5661/journal.txt
    Info: Searching AVC errors produced since 1355187245.41 (Mon Dec 10 19:54:05 2012)
     Searching logs...
     Info: No AVC messages found.
 Writing to /mnt/testarea/tmp.S8JHEh
:
   AvcLog: /mnt/testarea/tmp.S8JHEh
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 09:17:31 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/RHSA-2013-0528.html
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