[Freeipa-users] Some questions - using LDAP and mac os x version

[Götz Reinicke]

Rob Crittenden schrieb:
> Götz Reinicke wrote:
>> Dmitri Pal schrieb:
>>> Götz Reinicke wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> recently I started to investigate freeIPA as we do have a lot of
>>>> windows
>>>> and mac os x clients and mostly RH EL 5.x Servers.
>>>>
>>>> I set up a test server and installed and followed the instructions from
>>>> the FreeIPA documentation homepage.
>>>>
>>>> At most I'm interissted in authenticating mac os x clients so I started
>>>> to test the client installation. As for the moment I have only 10.5
>>>> Clients; the doc referes to 10.4.
>>>>
>>>> After some steps I saw, that some parameters and options are different,
>>>> so I stopped :).
>>>>
>>>> My questions:
>>>>
>>>> Is freeIPA usable with 10.5? If so, what has to be changed?
>>>>   
>>> Probably yes but we do not know for sure.
>>>
>>>
>>>> May I help by providing my experience?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> Yes. Please. If you can share your experience about configuring 10.5
>>> would be really great.
>>
>> O.K. as soon as I have time, I'll document the different steps. I'm
>> shure that I than need some help.
>>
>>>> Can I use freeIPA also as a LDAP directory for e.g. E-Mail-Clients like
>>>> thunderbird to look up addresses?
>>>>   
>>> Yes. IPA is a directory. When configuring lookups please keep in mind
>>> that IPA has a flat tree of user accounts.
>>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Image:IPA-DIT.png
>>
>> Could you give me a hint, what I have to configure and how? That would
>> be greate!
>>
> 
> Sure, from Thunderbird bring up the address book (Tools->Address Book).
> 
> Define a new LDAP server with File->New->LDAP Directory...
> 
> Enter a useful name and the hostname of the IPA server.
> 
> For the Base DN use something like: cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=freeipa,dc=org
> 
> You don't need to provide a Bind DN and you can optionally enable SSL.
> It should work either way.

Thanks, that worked!

/Götz
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