IPA - Basic Commands

A basic list of command to manage FreeIPA services.

DNS

Add new a record and reverse record.

An A record is used to map an FQDN to an IP address. The A record is created using the following:

ipa dnsrecord-add <forward-zone>  <short-name> --a-rec <IP of A record>

The reverse, or pointer, record is used to map the IP to a hostname. The command to create a pointer is:

ipa dnsrecord-add <reverse-zone> <num> --ptr-rec <host-FQDN>.

Note the trailing dot. This is very important. 

This is an example of adding server1.i.example.com with the IP of 192.168.4.11 to the FreeIPA DNS.

ipa dnsrecord-add i.example.com  server1 --a-rec 192.168.4.11
ipa dnsrecord-add 4.168.192.in-addr.arpa 11 --ptr-rec server1.i.example.com.

Hosts

Remove a failed or dead host.

ipa host-del server1 --updatedns

Including the --updatedns option will also remove all of the linked DNS entries for this host.

Services

The service must include the service / FQDN of the host.

ipa service-add nfs/server1.i.example.com

Users

Add a new user lab1

ipa user-add lab1

Change the new user's password

 ipa passwd lab1