Description of problem: For testing I am building IPA 3.2 on VMs in an isolated network, the VMs can see each other and the VM host but not the Internet. ipa-server-install has no option to specify the NTP servers to use, in this case the VM host. The IPA server is configured with NTP looking for the fedora.pool.ntp.org servers which are not accessible. ipa-client-install has the --ntp-server option, but ipa-server-install help and man page do not indicate this option is available. Please consider adding the --ntp-server option to ipa-server-install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): freeipa-server-3.2.1-1.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Consistent
While on IPA clients, we configure /etc/ntp.conf to sync with IPA master it is configured with. However, on IPA servers we don't overwrite /etc/ntp.conf and we just update it to run in an NTP server mode. So the original configured servers may be still in (fedora.pool.ntp.org server). But I think we may want to be more consistent in ntp.conf configuration. For example as with IPA clients as we overwrite /etc/ntp.conf, the following default section is not in: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Enable public key cryptography. #crypto includefile /etc/ntp/crypto/pw ~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am thinking that with clients, we may just want to do the same as with server and do not overwrite the ntp.conf and just do the changes we need. This will make us more resilient to NTP default conf changes. For servers, we may indeed add option --ntp-server to overwrite the NTP server configuration in ntp.conf. Alexander, what do you think about this?
I think it makes sense. We would add --ntp-server to ipa-server-install and on client would handle merging in the changes.
Ok, just wanted to have a second opinion on that. Cloning a ticket.
Upstream ticket: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3789
Work around: sed --in-place \\ '/^server 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org/i server 192.168.$subnet.10' \\ /etc/ntp.conf # RedHat bug 984326 sed --in-place \\ '/^server [0-9].fedora.pool.ntp.org/s/server/#server/' \\ /etc/ntp.conf # RedHat bug 984326 systemctl restart ntpd.service # RedHat bug 984326
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