[Freeipa-users] Re: Freeipa and Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) password sync failing

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On to, 22 kesä 2017, Janet Houser via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> We are trying to use G Suite's GCDS to sync users and passwords from 
> our Freeipa server running on
> a CentOS server.
>
> The sync appears *mostly* working and when the sync is executed, it 
> registers that a user has changed their
> password and *claims* it's made the modification change.

Do you really need to sync passwords to G Suite as opposed to allow
users to authenticate against FreeIPA when using G Suite apps?

If the latter is your goal, then I'd recommend looking into federation
instead. For example, https://ipsilon-project.org/doc/example/google-apps.html