On 08/25/2017 11:07 AM, Rob Morin via FreeIPA-users wrote:
The master is gone, has been for a year, the server exists, but ipa
was uninstalled with ip-server-install --uninstall command... so i only have this replica,
and i assume that re-installing it on the old server would mess stuff up?
Without a backup of the data on Master, it wouldn't mess anything up, it
just wouldn't help much. It would be a new installation that hasn't been
setup for use yet. That gets you nowhere, really.
I'm curious as to how/why this was setup this way. And why the master
was uninstalled if the organization was still using IPA for authentication.
FWIW, if I were in your position, I'd hobble along on the replica while
I spend the time and effort building an entirely new IPA
infrastructure. And certainly NOT in a virtualbox VM on a linux
server. It would be better in the long run rather than trying to mend
this broken system and have to fight it constantly afterwards.
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Mark Haney
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