[Freeipa-users] migration plan from local accounts

[Sylvain Angers]

>Let me know if there is anything unclear about AIX clients in
the documentation on freeipa.org.

May I ask why there is a krb5 server as a requirement on a client?

Thanks

Le 5 janv. 2012 19:50, "Simo Sorce" <simo at redhat.com> a écrit :
>
> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:27 -0500, Sylvain Angers wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> >
> > by moving away from local account, to freeipa do we affect any of
> > these numbers?:
> >
> >
> > -group name length limits
> > -group membership limits
> >
> >
> > or they remain the same / as the under limit of the local os?
> > On linux, I believe there will still be a limitation of 16 id per
> > group, right?
>
> Linux has a "limitation" of 65K groups per user, and this has been true
> for many years now.
>
> If you use NFS with sys auth instead of krb5 auth then you have a
> lim

> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:27 -0500, Sylvain Angers wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> >
> > by moving away from local account, to freeipa do we affect any of
> > these numbers?:
> >
> >
> > -group name length limits
> > -group membership limits
> >
> >
> > or they remain the same / as the under limit of the local os?
> > On linux, I believe there will still be a limitation of 16 id per
> > group, right?
>
> Linux has a "limitation" of 65K groups per user, and this has been true
> for many years now.
>
> If you use NFS with sys auth instead of krb5 auth then you have a
> limitation of 16 groups per user, but this is a protocol limitation
> valid for all OSs, it is not a limitation of Linux. And using krb5 auth
> there is no such limitation.
> >
> > If anyone has some past experience with AIX, feel free to share with
> > me
>
> We did some qualification/documentation testing on AIX a while back. All
> I can say is that AIX can work agains FreeIPA just fine, but I am in no
> way an AIX expert and the docs we have on freeipa.org are all I can tell
> you to use as I already forgot all the details we dicovered at the time
> we tested AIX :)
>
> > I am really interested to ear about it
>
> Let me know if there is anything unclear about AIX clients in the
> documentation on freeipa.org.
>
> Simo.
>
> --
> Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
>
>
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