[CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 30.09.2013 um 07:34 schrieb Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>:

> On 09/29/2013 09:56 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> I'd test this over Samba as a AD replacement.....   but, if your
>> environment includes a lot of windows client systems, and expects to use
>> Active Directory group policies to closely manage those windows
>> systems,  none of these solutions will come close to what the 'real
>> thing' offers.
> 
> I agree.  If you're managing Windows clients and need Group Policy, 
> there's very little reason not to run AD.
> 
> If you "don't like" giving money to Microsoft, then ditch the clients. 
> Even if you replace AD with Samba, you still need a management 
> workstation to handle all of the tools that would otherwise be present 
> on an AD system.  Most of the time, that means you haven't actually 
> saved any money on Windows licenses.



Yes.
If you need to have Windows-Clients around, you need to have a native AD around, too.
Period.
Both FreeIPA and RHIPA state rather prominently on their web-pages that they are not a replacement for the former.
Rather, they are meant as an alternative.