[Freeipa-users] Adding a freeipa version 2 repo to RHEL 5

[Rob Crittenden]

Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to install a ipafree v2 client on RHELu5 64bit?
>
> I cannot find anything via Google that indicates this is so or how to do it.
>
> If so what's the repo config pls?
>
> If not will the ver1 of freeipa work and if so what is the repo?
>
> The client documentation simply says its possible....yet nothing on google indicates how or if this is actually the case...

There is not currently a v2 client for RHEL 5 (or anything other than 
Fedora, really).

You might find a v1 client for RHEL 5 in a centos repo, or you can pull 
the rheipa srpms from ftp.redhat.com to build a v1.x client.

Another user recently confirmed that a v1 client works with a v2 server 
but it will configure nss_ldap/pam_ldap and not sssd. You also don't get 
automatic host enrollment like you do with a v2 client. The current 
authconfig that ships with RHEL 5 doesn't support sssd at all though 
manually configuring it isn't terribly difficult.

Beware when it comes to the current v2 documentation, it is in a 
dangerous quasi-state right now. Much of it has been copied from v1 and 
it is being slowly updated but it is far from complete right now.

rob