Finn Fysj via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023, Finn Fysj via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>>
>> I would actually address this one, not the original question.
>>
>> You are conflating two different actions into one. 'Migrating' from a
>> particular OS version in existing IPA deployment to another one is not a
>> migration, from IPA point of view. In this case, even if you are adding
>> new replicas using an updated OS version, the data in LDAP stays the
>> same and is replicated in its entirety across the topology.
>>
>> When we say that an upgrade to RHEL9 from RHEL7 deployment should be
>> done by adding an intermediary RHEL8 replica, this is the case.
>>
>> In the case where you are using 'ipa migrate-ds', you are creating a
>> totally separate environment which shares no LDAP data directly with the
>> old one. Here you are adding users/groups from the old setup (be that an
>> older IPA deployment or some OpenLDAP setup, or may be Active Directory,
>> or something else) to the new setup. Only a subset of information is
>> tranferred.
>>
>> Coming back to your question, are you passing a bind DN and password to
>> be able to see all information in the old IPA deployment? bind DN
>> defaults to 'cn=Directory Manager', so that one should see all user
>> and group details.
> 
> Thank you for your repose, Alexander.
> 
> I'm indeed creating a separate IPA servers, who're NOT intended to be part of 
> the "old" one, at least not in a Replica setup.
> 
> Yes. This line is being run in ansible so the DS password is being passed to 
> the command, correct.

I'm assuming that Ansible is eating the output of the migration command?
Any failures to migrate users/groups would be shown there.

migrate-ds is not a great way to do IPA-to-IPA migration for a number of
reasons, mainly because it only migrates users and groups and nothing
else. It was designed to help migrate from LDAP-based systems to IPA.

rob
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