[389-users] Centos 6?

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

www.freeipa.org

At present I am going to evaluate FreeIPA, Openldap and AD as possible solutions for us. 

For freeipa my understanding is its released in 6.2 which is about November time so looking at it now seems a good idea, 3 months will fly by.

1) It has a very nice gui, simple to use. 
2) Its pretty simple to install, almost as simple as typing dcpromo
3) Its very easy to get RHEL 6.1 clients to join it.
4) Its policy based where you can set rules based on source say user groups, applications say ssh allow or deny and then targets say server OUs.

So fa its the best thing Ive seen.

regards

Steven Jones

Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE

Victoria University, Wellington, NZ

0064 4 463 6272

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From: 389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Steven Santos [Steven at simplycircus.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 1:04 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [389-users] Centos 6?

Can you talk to me about FreeIPA?

What is it?

What are the benefits of it?

Does it have a web page?
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On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Steven Jones <Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I Have to wonder if you are going this far to run 389 on RHEL 6.1 that you dont go a little further and try FreeIPA which is also a tech preview in 6.1.
>
> regards
>
> Steven
> ________________________________________
> From: 389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [389-users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] on behalf of Rich Megginson [rmeggins at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:17 a.m.
> To: Brett Dikeman
> Cc: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project.
> Subject: Re: [389-users] Centos 6?
>
> On 07/29/2011 03:49 PM, Brett Dikeman wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Leo Pleiman<lpleiman at salsalabs.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Rumor has it there has been a mass exodus from Centos and the ports may be
>>> a little behind. You might want to look at Scientific Linux.
>> I just tried SL 6.1.  I did a 'basic server' clean install.
>>
>> The epel-389-ds-base repo (as recommended here
>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Download ) contains a URL
>> which doesn't work (it's based off of $releasever, which on SL 6.1
>> is...6.1, not "6"!  RHEL 6.1 has been out since May, it'd be nice if
>> this was fixed.)
> Fixed.
>> The URL in the file also isn't correct for the testing repo; it's
>> trying to access:
>>
>> /repos/rmeggins/389-ds-base/testing/epel-6/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
>>
>> ...and the correct URL, based on browsing the site in question, is:
>>
>> /repos/rmeggins/389-ds-base/epel-6/testing/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
> Fixed.
>> Amazingly, finally, it all seems to have installed.
> EL6 support is . . . tricky.  We will not provide support for 6.0 - too
> many missing dependencies.  With RHEL6.1, since the 389-ds-base package
> is provided by the base OS, we cannot provide them via EPEL, hence the
> use of the private developer repo at fedorapeople.org.  The other
> "problem" with EL6 is that the 389-ds-base package is not the full
> package - it is missing the replication and windows sync bits (hence the
> problem with the missing repl-monitor.pl).  You have to pay extra for
> the ds-replication package in RHEL6 - right now it is available as a
> "tech preview" from your local sales rep.  The 389-ds-base package from
> fedorapeople.org does have the replication bits.
>
> So, to summarize, if you want the full 389 ds/admin/console on EL6:
> 1) you must use EL 6.1 or later
> 2) you must use 389-ds-base from the fedorapeople.org repo
> 3) you must use EPEL6 for the other packages
>> -B
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