On 02/26/2016 05:23 PM, Rakesh Rajasekharan wrote: > Hi!, > > I had successfully set up ipa in our qa environment, but since we are > running cenots 6, i just got 3.0.25 version of IPA. > > I wanted to try out the latest 4.x version, for server by using a centos 7 > OS. But have few questions regarding that > > Will there be compatibility issues, if I use a server at 4.x and clients at > 3.0.25
Please see http://www.freeipa.org/page/Client#Compatibility There are plans for FreeIPA 4.4 to improve the "ipa" tool/API compatibility too. > Another question is, >>From the documentation, I see that theres an option to manually configure a > client where in we do not have to install freeipa-client using > ipa-client-install > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/FreeIPA_Guide/linux-manual.html Please note that this is a quite old documentation, see here for other options: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Upstream_User_Guide > So that way , I can install the latest version of freeipa server and make > my clients also be able to use the latest verison without actually > installing it. > > But, are there any issues with this approach, and how does it differ from > doing a ipa-client-install on the client machine. I can hardly imagine when manually configuring a FreeIPA client would be a good idea. In vast majority of cases, ipa-client-install is what you want, to configure a client against newer or older FreeIPA server version. Martin -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project
