On (26/06/15 12:48), Petr Spacek wrote: >On 26.6.2015 12:18, Lukas Slebodnik wrote: >> On (26/06/15 01:29), Prasun Gera wrote: >>> I've found that if you are setting up a new environment from scratch which >>> is mostly going to involve RHEL/Fedora systems, and that you have full >>> control over your network including DNS, DHCP etc., it should mostly be >>> smooth sailing. However, if you already have a network of old and new >>> machines running different versions and flavours of unix, there is >>> significantly more work involved. That is, there is significant complexity >>> on client side code as well which should not be discounted. Do a survey of >>> the state of client side support on different distributions. From my >>> experience, Ubuntu 12.04 is iffy. There's also an open ticket pushed to >> ipa-client-install is not properly ported to ubuntu 12.04 and >> moreover there is quite there quite old version of sssd 1.11.5-1 >> which contains may bugs. Lots of them are fixed in upstream 1.11.7 >> and some of them in 1.11.8 which we would like to release in few weeks. >> so If you hit bugs on ubuntu 12.04 please try latest upstream version (1.11) >> or file bugs to ubuntu. >> >>> 'future' on FreeNAS, which is BSD based. IMO this is one of the major >>> hurdles for wider adoption. >>> >> FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD and ipa-client-install is not available there. >> The only benefit is newer version of sssd (1.11.7) than in ubuntu 12.04. >> There was also thread here(freeipa-users) with document describing steps >> for configuration on FreeBSD. > >More importantly, ipa-client-install is just a thin configuration tool. If >ipa-client-install is not available on your platform you can configure >everything manually and it will work (as long as the client is >standard-compliant). > >I.e. the client side is *in the worst case* (without ipa-client-install) >equally hard to setup as for any home-made solution. > There is a ticket[1] for description of steps done by ipa-client-install. One use-case is "containers world" and another is to help others to manually configure machine against FreeIPA. It is planned fo FreeIPA 4.2 release So I hope it will be finished on time.
LS [1] https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4993 -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project
