Hello I'm trying to figure out if free IPA is a good solution for my environment or if i should just construct a custom infrastructure with 389 server and i just have a couple of quick questions. I have a long history working with LDAPv3 and I'm currently planing a new infrastructure for my current employer. I've worked with OpenLDAP 389 server and even 389 servers original incarnation when Netscape was still around
1) Can the Kerberos server be on an other box. I'm not a python programer so I haven't been able to test it my self but many of the Kerberos calls look like wrappers to the C libraries. if so than it might be possible 2) Can I configure it not to store the Kerberos data in the LDAP server. I don't like the chicken and the egg authentication conundrum this can cause, and I have no intention of allowing users to use LDAPv2 so I actually don't want the password field in the database or at least blocked by an ACL so it cant be used. I personally find the fact that applications still use this field for authentication appalling because it essentially turned back the clock to before shadow password files. 3) This is the most important question, there has been a lot of talk about fixing the issues with MIT Kerberos. Is there someplace I can look To see what the status of these fixes are other than pouring through the change logs for MIT Kerberos. I don't want to get in to a Kerberos holy war but most of these are really old bugs in MIT Kerberos that made me abandon the Idea of ever using the MIT server in production over a decade ago. I know exactly the issues that lead to the Samba group choose to code only to Heimdal all too well because I first remember hitting them and reporting them back 2001 to the Samba group via usenet. The big thing for me is the thread safety because this often caused the MIT Kerberos server to crash then Samba was running in domain mode on the same box, Honestly I still don't trust MIT's implementation in a mission critical environment, _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
