[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA, RedHat Directory Server and Centros DS

Roman Naumenko roman at naumenko.ca
Tue Nov 4 17:13:00 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> On 11/04/2014 05:28 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> > On 11/04/2014 11:25 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> On Tue, 04 Nov 2014, Roman Naumenko wrote:
> >>>>> You definitely can set up separate instances of 389-ds.
> >>>>> Preferably
> >>>>> this should be done on separate hosts than IPA masters because
> >>>>> otherwise you'll have a number of practical issues with
> >>>>> different
> >>>>> instances binding to the same LDAP/LDAPS ports and so  on.
> >>>> Is 389-ds equivalent of RedHat Directory Server
> >>>> (http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/directory-server)?
> >>>>
> >>> Red Hat Directory Server is what is known as 389 Directory Server
> >>> (389-ds) upstream project. Essentially, it is the same code. If
> >>> you
> >>> have
> >>> specific questions about support of Red Hat Directory Server, I'd
> >>> suggest you to ask them Red Hat sales/support people (of which
> >>> I'm
> >>> neither one). ;)
> >> Not necessarily sales people have to be involved, Centos has the
> >> same
> >> project :)
> >> I'm pondering what's the difference between Centos and Red Hat
> >> versions.
> >
> > RHDS is the layered product.
> > It has 389DS package but also some other tools and utilities that
> > are
> > not a part of core RHEL and thus not in CentOS.
> 
> However, they are in EPEL - 389-console, 389-admin, etc.

You lost me :)
Am I understand correctly that everything is equal between centos and redhat directory servers, but redhat will have more stable code?

--Roman




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