Kapetanakis Giannis via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're looking into migrating our current LDAP setup (389) to a FreeIPA setup.
> 
> Reading documentation and searching online cannot answer the following 
> question.
> 
> Is FreeIPA able to authenticate normal LDAP clients without any Kerberos, 
> GSSAPI involved on the client side?
> Most of my LDAP clients support only LDAP authentication over SSL/TLS.

What kind of authentication? Simple bind works out of the box.

> Will FreeIPA's LDAP server delegate authentication to Kerberos on behalf of 
> the client or
> does it need the userPassword attribute stored in it's LDAP server?
> 
> Which SASL Mechanism is being used in this case?
> 
> If the userPassword in needed how does it stay in sync with the user's 
> kerberos credentials?
> Is the sync both ways (LDAP-Kerberos)?

IPA handles keeping the userPassword and krbPrincipalKey values in sync
via a 389-ds plugin.

> Is there documentation about these specific tasks?

Which tasks? There is probably only a bullet-point in the docs for the
password synchronization because it is not configurable and happens
automatically.

rob

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