[Freeipa-users] ipa 2 client connecting to ipa 3 server

[Rob Crittenden]

Walid wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> What is the recommendation on having ipa2 clients connecting to IPA 3
> server, we have some RHEL5.3 clients (I know they are EOL, however end
> user still wants as it is)  that we would like to connect them to IPA
> 3.x server running RHEL6.5.

Should work fine with no problems.

> Any one running free-ipa on RHEL instead of the Red Hat packages on
> RHEL5, and RHEL6?

Depending on the versions of IPA and RHEL it can be difficult but not
impossible. The biggest obstacle is missing or older dependencies, some
of which are extremely non-trivial to backport.

RHEL 5 still has Python 2.4 which makes the backport that much more
difficult.

rob