On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:50:07PM -0800, Jonathan Nilsson wrote:
> I have not used FreeIPA on CentOS. As I said previously, I highly recommend
> using Fedora servers as your FreeIPA servers, because it will install much
> easier and you should be able to get support from the freeipa-users mailing
> list.
>
> If you are set on using CentOS, I think you will need to use the RedHat IPA
> product instead. But the only success stories that I am familiar with are
> from the v1.x IPA product, which is old.
>
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-build-rhel-ipa-rpms-for-centos-5
>
I'm surprised FreeIPA isn't in EPEL. Maybe this is because it's a
layered product offering by RHEL?
It's painful to run Fedora as a production server unfortunately with
its short lifecycle (at least in Enterprisey environments).
Ray
> --
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Jonathan Nilsson <jnilsson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > You're welcome! I have used FreeIPA in the past with great success
> > (though not specifically as an NIS data source). So if you do pursue
> > FreeIPA, I highly recommend joining their separate mailing list
> > freeipa-users@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
> > > They have a very active development community that will be able to help
> > you get up and running.
> > > To get you started, I recommend that you try installing it on a Fedora
> > server, rather than CentOS (people have reported being able to build and
> > install on CentOS 5, but yum install is easier on Fedora).
> > > Good luck!
> > > --
> > > jonathan
> >
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > Did you get this for CentOS. I've got CentOS 5.6. Would you know if
> > there is a repository for that that contains FreeIPA?
> >
> > Boris.
> >
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