[Freeipa-devel] ipaserver-install and existing dirsrv instances

[Karl MacMillan]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 11:06 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > Part of the requirements for installing freeipa-server is that there be
> > no directory server instances. Just for a test, I ran the install script
> > when there was an existing instance, and was asked whether I wanted to
> > remove it.
> > 
> > What happens if you don't, and attempt to use your existing dirsrv
> > instance? Can you? What sort of configuration changes are required for
> > dirsrv and/or ipa?
> > 
> >
> 
> If you answer "no" to not remove it the installer quits. There is no way 
> around it right now.
> 

In theory - if you know what you are doing - you could have multiple
directory instances. But as Rob says, we don't currently support that.

Karl