Jarett DeAngelis via FreeIPA-users wrote: > hi everyone, > > I am trying (with great difficulty!) to do authn/authz both for an HPC > cluster and a number of other Linux machines against our Okta directory > service. Okta offers their "Advanced Server Access" product, which is > *bonkers* expensive for the ~6 or 7 machines we need to auth with at $10K a > year, and Aquera has a plugin for FreeIPA they maintain which will auth > FreeIPA against Okta for another $10K a year. this is a small HPC lab and > we're just trying to avoid as much credential proliferation as we can. > > my hope is that FreeIPA can be configured to auth against Okta's "built in" > LDAP service, which is fairly minimal but will validate passwords and return > some basic information in response to queries like group membership. then I > can join machines to FreeIPA, which will in turn auth against Okta to allow > users to log in. is this possible?
I'm not sure where IPA fits in here. Why use IPA as a middle-man for authentication? SSSD has an LDAP backend that might work. rob _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
