[Authentication] Realmd 0.16.3 and CentOS 7

[Scott Rankin]

> On 9/1/16, 3:54 AM, "Authentication on behalf of Stef Walter" <authentication-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org on behalf of stefw at gnome.org> wrote:
>
>     On 31.08.2016 20:03, Scott Rankin wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > We are trying to switch from PowerBroker Open to realmd/sssd in our
>     > CentOS 7 environment, and I’m trying to use 0.16.3 to take advantage of
>     > the “computer-name” feature that was recently introduced (our hostnames
>     > are much longer than 15 characters).
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > I can build and install realmd on CentOS 7, but when I try to run any
>     > realmd commands, it just hangs.  Running “systemctl status realmd” gives
>     > this:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Realm and
>     > Domain Configuration...
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain realmd[25732]: Loaded settings
>     > from: /usr/lib/realmd/realmd-defaults.conf
>     > /usr/lib/realmd/realmd-distro.conf
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain realmd[25732]: holding daemon: startup
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain realmd[25732]: starting service
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain realmd[25732]: connected to bus
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain realmd[25732]: released daemon:
>     > startup
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain realmd[25732]: couldn't claim
>     > service name on DBus bus: org.freedesktop.realmd
>     >
>     > Aug 31 17:55:14 localhost.localdomain realmd[25732]: ** Message:
>     > couldn't claim service name on DBus bus: org.freedesktop.realmd
>
>     Seems like an install issue. Are you installing from source? How are you
>     building realmd? Perhaps leave the RPM installed, and then install over
>     that with source?
>
>     Stef
>

I believe it is some sort of install issue. I was building realmd from source then using ‘make install’ to install it.

I downloaded the CentOS SRPM for realmd and updated it with 0.16.3 and that seemed to work.

Thanks!

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