Overview#

This page provides instructions to set up IPA for PKI development and testing. To set up IPA for production please refer to the official IPA documentation.

Installing IPA Packages#

RHEL packages#

To install the packages:

$ yum install ipa-server

Installing IPA Server#

Basic IPA server#

$ ipa-server-install -a Secret.123 -p Secret.123 -r EXAMPLE.COM -U

Cloning IPA Server#

RHEL 6#

On RHEL 6 master:

$ ipa-replica-prepare <replica hostname> -p Secret.123

It will generate /var/lib/ipa/replica-info-.gpg. Transfer this file to the replica.

On RHEL 6 replica:

$ ipa-replica-install --setup-ca replica-info-<replica hostname>.gpg -p Secret.123 -w Secret.123

Uninstalling IPA Server#

$ ipa-server-install --uninstall -U

References#