On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:50:07PM -0800, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: > I have not used FreeIPA on CentOS. As I said previously, I highly recommend > using Fedora servers as your FreeIPA servers, because it will install much > easier and you should be able to get support from the freeipa-users mailing > list. > > If you are set on using CentOS, I think you will need to use the RedHat IPA > product instead. But the only success stories that I am familiar with are > from the v1.x IPA product, which is old. > > http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-build-rhel-ipa-rpms-for-centos-5 > I'm surprised FreeIPA isn't in EPEL. Maybe this is because it's a layered product offering by RHEL? It's painful to run Fedora as a production server unfortunately with its short lifecycle (at least in Enterprisey environments). Ray > -- > Jonathan > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Jonathan Nilsson <jnilsson at uci.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > You're welcome! I have used FreeIPA in the past with great success > > (though not specifically as an NIS data source). So if you do pursue > > FreeIPA, I highly recommend joining their separate mailing list > > freeipa-users at redhat.com > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users > > > They have a very active development community that will be able to help > > you get up and running. > > > To get you started, I recommend that you try installing it on a Fedora > > server, rather than CentOS (people have reported being able to build and > > install on CentOS 5, but yum install is easier on Fedora). > > > Good luck! > > > -- > > > jonathan > > > > Jonathan, > > > > Did you get this for CentOS. I've got CentOS 5.6. Would you know if > > there is a repository for that that contains FreeIPA? > > > > Boris. > >