IPA installation fails on RHEL 8 using FIPS and Python using MD5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On RHEL 8 FIPS, IPA install fails due to Python not being allowed to use MD5 to calculate signatures.
  • UnboundLocalError: local variable 'sig' referenced before assignment

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux => 8.1 with FIPS

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