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

[Dmitri Pal]

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.


> 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

> Thanks and best regards.
>
> Götz
>