So, I ran across an article on how to install the client manually on the Red Hat site.
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2622831
Thank you Red Hat technical writing team. Without it we would've had to dump FreeIPA
on our project.
As far as I can tell, what was missing was the correct configuration of the sssd.conf,
krb5.conf files. And the certutil command was not completed correctly.