Finn Fysj via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>> Finn Fysj via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>>
>> If you migrate the Kerberos keys and principals they will be for the
>> original realm and will not work.
>>
>> LDAP passwords are migrated by allowing password migration in
>> ipa-config. When this mode is enabled, if an LDAP bind occurs and there
>> are no Kerberos keys then they are generated automatically if they don't
>> already exist.
>>
>>
>> Because it sounds like you aren't using Kerberos at all.
>>
>>
>> RHEL and Fedora have used private user groups for decades now. The
>> definition being that when a user is created they get a group with the
>> same id and no members.
>>
>> An IPA user-private group is similar in nature in that it has the same
>> uid/gid. It also lacks the objectclasses to allow members.
>>
>> A migrated group will retain the same GID but is a regular group.
>>
>> This is most noticeable when you have a lot of users, so therefore a lot
>> of private groups. Private groups are filtered out by default when
>> looking at the list of groups. That will not happen after migration.
>>
>> I'm really not sure what your use-case is here. Do you have an existing
>> broken IPA server? I have the impression you are starting out new.
>>
>> rob
> 
> FIrstly thank you for taking your time, Rob.
> 
> We have an existing IPA server running on RHEL7 and our goal is to create two 
> new IPA server on RHEL9 (master & replica). 
> We therefore want to migrate USERS & GROUPS only from the existing IPA server 
> using ipa migrate-ds.  
> The end goal look something like: Only to use the IPA servers as LDAP server 
> and load balance the these two. It basically gives us LDAP servers w/ GUI. 
> Replacing FreeIPA is not an option.
> 
> I'm therefore curious what the risks may be if we're leaving out migrating 
> UPGs, and secondly your thoughts on this approach.
>

UPGs cannot be migrated at all. There is no risk. Some find it annoying
to see a bunch of single-user groups in the interface, that's all.

rob
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