[Freeipa-users] Has one successfully synched the entirety of their AD to IPA (multiple OUs and or Subtrees)

[Rich Megginson]

On 03/17/2014 03:52 PM, Todd Maugh wrote:
>
> Thanks Rich,
>
> I am able to create a successful winsync agreement from the top level.
>
> Unfortunately, when I do this. I do not see any of the accounts from 
> the sub trees populate my ipa server.
>

Ok, so it doesn't work.

> Is it possible to have all the subtrees (ous) live under cn=users.If I 
> make this change to AD would IPA then sync all the accounts from the 
> subtrees?
>

Yes.

> I cant believe I am the first person with this issue or need.
>

You are certainly not - we have a couple of 389 to address this and 
similar issues with winsync.

https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/460

Unfortunately, this fix has been targeted for F20 (389-ds-base-1.3.2), 
and we don't have plans to backport to EL6.

Note that winsync is always going to be more or less painful - it is 
not, was never designed to be, and never will be a full blown 
meta-directory solution.  For more information:

https://fedorahosted.org/389/query?component=Sync+Service&status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority&report=16

That's why we recommend that the best long term solution is cross domain 
trust - that removes winsync from the picture.

> Thanks again in advance.
>
> *From:*Rich Megginson [mailto:rmeggins at redhat.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 17, 2014 2:44 PM
> *To:* Todd Maugh; freeipa-users at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] Has one successfully synched the 
> entirety of their AD to IPA (multiple OUs and or Subtrees)
>
> On 03/17/2014 03:33 PM, Todd Maugh wrote:
>
>     I'm trying to sync all of my AD to IPA, I don't need to retain any
>     of the original windows directory structure once in IPA.
>
>     I cannot find where to set ipaWinSyncUserFlatten to true (so I'm
>     assuming it's on true by default)
>
>
> Yes, it is true by default.
> dn: cn=ipa-winsync,cn=plugins,cn=config
>
>
>     I really need to be able to sync more than just the cn=users subtree
>
>
> There really isn't explicit support for this.  If it doesn't work to 
> set your AD subtree to your root suffix (e.g. dc=domain,dc=com), then 
> it's simply not going to work until 389 adds support for that.
>
>
>     And I can find no documentation or help on line.
>
>
> Because there probably isn't any.
>
>
>     Has anyone had any success or practice with this?
>
>
> See above.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     -Todd
>
>     Todd Maugh
>
>     Sr System Engineer
>
>     *Boingo Wireless*
>
>     *tmaugh at boingo.com <mailto:tmaugh at boingo.com>*
>
>
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