On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Rob Crittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brian LaMere wrote: > >> Yes, if not easier. It is just 389-ds under the hood, we have some simple >> management tools that create the agreements for you. Since we use our own CA >> SSL is easy as well. > > if I already have certs for the servers that would be running the IPA, would it be easy enough to use those? I ask because my gold images come out of the box already trusting my ldap servers, which means using someone else's CA can potentially be a concern. That's not a show-stopper, because I can work around that anyway. > Depending on your configuration the data migration should be relatively > straightforward but know that the IPA DIT is completely flat. All users are > in one container, groups in another, etc. I have to admit that while I'm very good at some things, I was only "ok" with ldap way back long long ago when I did anything with it. I just created a custom schema with a couple hundred attributeTypes and a couple dozen objectclasses so that I can manage a lot of different things within ldap (single point of pluggable info to allow an object-oriented framework, independent of what tools are used). So when I read your "the IPA DIT is completely flat" statement I got a bit worried. Much of what I am doing will be far more difficult if I can't give texture to things, and my understanding is that a "completely flat DIT" is very difficult to create good aci's against. I know that the obvious answer is to just install it, and look and see if it does what I want anyway ;) But without spending time to do that...if I leave the users/groups in their current flat places, could I add texture to the DIT elsewhere (aci's are almost vital for what I'm doing; I want to expose methods, which means I can't just "trust" tools or hosts) without causing problems for FreeIPA? It's a lazy bred not out of laziness of not wanting to just experiment and test myself, but out of having a high workload; I'd like to use FreeIPA, and am just wondering if the above question has an obvious answer that doesn't even need to be tested. Thanks, Brian LaMere
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