[Freeipa-users] export entire ldap/kerberos/etc onto a new host

[Jenny Galipeau]

Thank you Natxo.  We are working hard to get it there and when we do .. 
it will awesome!
Jenny

Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Ian Stokes-Rees
> <ijstokes at hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> How did you expect anyone to seriously try to use FreeIPA if they
>> couldn't migrate between versions?  Surely installation and extended use
>> (weeks/months) by non-developers is part of any beta-testing plan.
>>     
>
> If you read the release notes (http://freeipa.org/page/IPAv2_beta), in
> the paragraph 'migration' it is quite clearly stated that migration from
> v1 to v2 of freeipa is not possible. You are right that it is not
> clearly stated that migrations between 1.9.whatever and 2 are not
> possible but ...
>
> ... as a sysadmin, whenever I read 'alpha|beta', all alarms go off
> :-). I do follow the project, but I would never run any kind of
> production on it just yet.
>
> I think that blaming redhat for your using a beta version of software in
> production is a bit harsh. I understand you are under stress and upset,
> but this was not supposed to be running in a production environment. Do
> not blame redhat for something that clearly is not their fault.
>
> This project is going to be awesome for unix networks. All the pieces of
> the puzzle were out there, but these guys are putting them together in a
> nice package. Having dealt with a share of ldap+kerberos environments, I
> can tell you this is it. It is not there yet, but it is getting there.
>
> It is your choice to not use it.
>
> --
> groeten,
> natxo
>
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