9.2. Enabling canonicalization of host names in service principals on clients
Follow this procedure to enable canonicalization of host names in service principals on clients.
- NOTE
If you use host principal aliases, as described in Adding an alias to a host principal, you do not need to enable canonicalization.
Prerequisites
- The Identity Management (IdM) client is installed.
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You are logged in to the IdM client as the
rootuser. - The host name is unique in the network.
Procedure
Set the
dns_canonicalize_hostnameparameter in the[libdefaults]section in the/etc/krb5.conffile tofalse:[libdefaults] ... dns_canonicalize_hostname = true