Ubuntu Manpage: default.conf - IPA configuration file

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NAME

       default.conf - IPA configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/ipa/default.conf, ~/.ipa/default.conf, /etc/ipa/server.conf, /etc/ipa/cli.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The default.conf configuration file is used to set system-wide defaults to be applied when
       running IPA clients and servers.

       Users may create an optional configuration  file  in  ~/.ipa/default.conf  which  will  be
       merged into the system-wide defaults file.

       The following files are read, in order:
           ~/.ipa/default.conf
           /etc/ipa/<context>.conf
           /etc/ipa/default.conf
           built-in constants

       The IPA server does not read ~/.ipa/default.conf.

       The first setting wins.

SYNTAX

       The  configuration  options  are  not  case  sensitive.  The values may be case sensitive,
       depending on the option.

       Blank lines are ignored.  Lines beginning with # are comments and are ignored.

       Valid lines consist of an option name, an equals sign  and  a  value.  Spaces  surrounding
       equals sign are ignored. An option terminates at the end of a line.

       Values should not be quoted, the quotes will not be stripped.

           # Wrong - don't include quotes
           verbose = "True"

           # Right - Properly formatted options
           verbose = True
           verbose=True

       Options  must appear in the section named [global]. There are no other sections defined or
       used currently.

       Options may be defined that are not used by IPA. Be careful of misspellings, they will not
       be rejected.

OPTIONS

The following options are relevant for the server:

basedn <base>
Specifies the base DN to use when performing LDAP operations. The base must be in
DN format (dc=example,dc=com).

ca_agent_port <port>
Specifies the secure CA agent port. The default is 8443.

ca_host <hostname>
Specifies the hostname of the dogtag CA server. The default is the hostname of the
IPA server.

ca_port <port>
Specifies the insecure CA end user port. The default is 8080.

certmonger_wait_timeout <seconds>
The time to wait for a certmonger request to complete during installation. The
default value is 300 seconds.

context <context>
Specifies the context that IPA is being executed in. IPA may operate differently
depending on the context. The current defined contexts are cli and server.
Additionally this value is used to load /etc/ipa/context.conf to provide
context-specific configuration. For example, if you want to always perform client
requests in verbose mode but do not want to have verbose enabled on the server, add
the verbose option to /etc/ipa/cli.conf.

debug <boolean>
When True provides detailed information. Specifically this set the global log level
to "debug". Default is False.

dogtag_version <version>
Stores the version of Dogtag. Value 9 is assumed if not specified otherwise.

domain <domain>
The domain of the IPA server e.g. example.com.

enable_ra <boolean>
Specifies whether the CA is acting as an RA agent, such as when dogtag is being
used as the Certificate Authority. This setting only applies to the IPA server
configuration.

fallback <boolean>
Specifies whether an IPA client should attempt to fall back and try other services
if the first connection fails.

host <hostname>
Specifies the local system hostname.

http_timeout <seconds>
Timeout for HTTP blocking requests (e.g. connection). The default value is 30
seconds.

in_server <boolean>
Specifies whether requests should be forwarded to an IPA server or handled locally.
This is used internally by IPA in a similar way as context. The same IPA framework
is used by the ipa command-line tool and the server. This setting tells the
framework whether it should execute the command as if on the server or forward it
via XML-RPC to a remote server.

in_tree <boolean>
This is used in development and is generally a detected value. It means that the
code is being executed within a source tree.

interactive <boolean>
Specifies whether values should be prompted for or not. The default is True.

kinit_lifetime <time duration spec>
Controls the lifetime of ticket obtained by users authenticating to the WebGUI
using login/password. The expected format is a time duration string. Examples are
"2 hours", "1h:30m", "10 minutes", "5min, 30sec". When the parameter is not set in
default.conf, the ticket will have a duration inherited from the default value for
kerberos clients, that can be set as ticket_lifetime in krb5.conf. When the ticket
lifetime has expired, the ticket is not valid anymore and the GUI will prompt to
re-login with a message "Your session has expired. Please re-login."

ldap_cache <boolean>
Enable a per-request LDAP cache. The default is True.

ldap_cache_size <integer>
The maximum number of entries cached if ldap_cache is True. Since this cache is
per-request it is not expected to be very large. The default is 100. Setting the
value < 1 effectively disables the cache regardless of the ldap_cache setting

ldap_uri <URI>
Specifies the URI of the IPA LDAP server to connect to. The URI scheme may be one
of ldap or ldapi. The default is to use ldapi, e.g.
ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-EXAMPLE-COM.socket

log_logger_XXX <comma separated list of regexps>
loggers matching regexp will be assigned XXX level.

Logger levels can be explicitly specified for specific loggers as opposed to a
global logging level. Specific loggers are indicated by a list of regular
expressions bound to a level. If a logger's name matches the regexp then it is
assigned that level. This config item must begin with "log_logger_level_" and then
be followed by a symbolic or numeric log level, for example:

log_logger_level_debug = ipalib\.dn\..*

log_logger_level_35 = ipalib\.plugins\.dogtag

The first line says any logger belonging to the ipalib.dn module will have it's
level configured to debug.

The second line say the ipa.plugins.dogtag logger will be configured to level 35.

This config item is useful when you only want to see the log output from one or
more selected loggers. Turning on the global debug flag will produce an enormous
amount of output. This allows you to leave the global debug flag off and
selectively enable output from a specific logger. Typically loggers are bound to
classes and plugins.

Note: logger names are a dot ('.') separated list forming a path in the logger
tree. The dot character is also a regular expression metacharacter (matches any
character) therefore you will usually need to escape the dot in the logger names by
preceding it with a backslash.

mode <mode>
Specifies the mode the server is running in. The currently support values are
production and developer. When running in production mode some self-tests are
skipped to improve performance.

mount_ipa <URI>
Specifies the mount point that the development server will register. The default is
/ipa/

prompt_all <boolean>
Specifies that all options should be prompted for in the IPA client, even optional
values. Default is False.

ra_plugin <name>
Specifies the name of the CA back end to use. The current options are dogtag and
none. This is a server-side setting. Changing this value is not recommended as the
CA back end is only set up during initial installation.

realm <realm>
Specifies the Kerberos realm.

replication_wait_timeout <seconds>
The time to wait for a new entry to be replicated during replica installation. The
default value is 300 seconds.

schema_ttl <seconds>
The number of seconds for the ipa tool to cache the IPA API and help schema.
Reducing this value during development is helpful so that API changes are seen
sooner in the tool. Setting this on a server will define the TTL for all client
versions > 4.3.1. Client versions > 4.3.1 that connect to IPA servers older than
4.3.1 will use the client-side configuration value. The default is 3600 seconds. 0
disables the cache. A change in the ttl will not be immediately recognized by
clients. They will use the new value once their current cache expires.

server <hostname>
Specifies the IPA Server hostname.

skip_version_check <boolean>
Skip client vs. server API version checking. Can lead to errors/strange behavior
when newer clients talk to older servers. Use with caution.

startup_timeout <time in seconds>
Controls the amount of time waited when starting a service. The default value is
120 seconds.

startup_traceback <boolean>
If the IPA server fails to start and this value is True the server will attempt to
generate a python traceback to make identifying the underlying problem easier.

validate_api <boolean>
Used internally in the IPA source package to verify that the API has not changed.
This is used to prevent regressions. If it is true then some errors are ignored so
enough of the IPA framework can be loaded to verify all of the API, even if
optional components are not installed. The default is False.

verbose <boolean>
When True provides more information. Specifically this sets the global log level to
"info".

wait_for_dns <number of attempts>
Controls whether the IPA commands dnsrecord-{add,mod,del} work synchronously or
not. The DNS commands will repeat DNS queries up to the specified number of
attempts until the DNS server returns an up-to-date answer to a query for modified
records. Delay between retries is one second.

The DNS commands will raise a DNSDataMismatch exception if the answer doesn't match
the expected value even after the specified number of attempts.

The DNS queries will be sent to the resolver configured in /etc/resolv.conf on the
IPA server.

Do not enable this in production! This will cause problems if the resolver on IPA
server uses a caching server instead of a local authoritative server or e.g. if DNS
answers are modified by DNS64. The default is disabled (the option is not present).

xmlrpc_uri <URI>
Specifies the URI of the XML-RPC server for a client. This may be used by IPA, and
is used by some external tools, such as ipa-getcert. Example:
https://ipa.example.com/ipa/xml

jsonrpc_uri <URI>
Specifies the URI of the JSON server for a client. This is used by IPA. If not
given, it is derived from xmlrpc_uri. Example: https://ipa.example.com/ipa/json

rpc_protocol <URI>
Specifies the type of RPC calls IPA makes: 'jsonrpc' or 'xmlrpc'. Defaults to
'jsonrpc'.

The following define the containers for the IPA server. Containers define where in the DIT
that objects can be found. The full location is the value of container + basedn.
container_accounts: cn=accounts
container_applications: cn=applications,cn=configs,cn=policies
container_automount: cn=automount
container_configs: cn=configs,cn=policies
container_dns: cn=dns
container_group: cn=groups,cn=accounts
container_hbac: cn=hbac
container_hbacservice: cn=hbacservices,cn=hbac
container_hbacservicegroup: cn=hbacservicegroups,cn=hbac
container_host: cn=computers,cn=accounts
container_hostgroup: cn=hostgroups,cn=accounts
container_netgroup: cn=ng,cn=alt
container_permission: cn=permissions,cn=pbac
container_policies: cn=policies
container_policygroups: cn=policygroups,cn=configs,cn=policies
container_policylinks: cn=policylinks,cn=configs,cn=policies
container_privilege: cn=privileges,cn=pbac
container_rolegroup: cn=roles,cn=accounts
container_roles: cn=roles,cn=policies
container_service: cn=services,cn=accounts
container_sudocmd: cn=sudocmds,cn=sudo
container_sudocmdgroup: cn=sudocmdgroups,cn=sudo
container_sudorule: cn=sudorules,cn=sudo
container_user: cn=users,cn=accounts
container_vault: cn=vaults,cn=kra
container_virtual: cn=virtual operations,cn=etc

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