[Freeipa-users] RHEL 5 client?

[Martin Kosek]

On 04/01/2015 07:45 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>
> Il 01/Apr/2015 19:36 "Rob Crittenden" <rcritten at redhat.com
> <mailto:rcritten at redhat.com>> ha scritto:
>  >
>  > Guertin, David S. wrote:
>  > > I’ve just set up an IPA domain that is working with our RHEL 6 clients.
>  > > (The servers are running RHEL 7.) But about half of our Linux servers
>  > > are running RHEL 5, and I’d like to be able to add these as clients as
>  > > well. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get it working. Before I get
>  > > too deep into debugging and log files, is this even possible? The
>  > > documentation that I’ve been able to find is unclear on this. So far
>  > > I’ve been looking at this thread:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2013-July/msg00277.html
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > and this document:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
> https://www.freeipa.org/page/FreeIPAv1:ConfiguringRhelClients#Configuring_RHEL_5_as_an_IPA_Client
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > but without much success. Is there documentation somewhere that
>  > > describes the procedure, if indeed one exists?
>  >
>  > The 5.x ipa-client should work fine. What isn't working?
>  >
>  > rob
>
> I would go with identity mgmt guide:
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Configuring_Identity_Management/index.html
>
> And in particular chapter 2:
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Configuring_Identity_Management/setting-up-clients.html
>
> I don't think it requires a rhel 5.x ipa server.

Right, it does not. There is (fortunately) no such thing as RHEL-5.x IPA server 
:-)

RHEL-5.x client should work with RHEL-6.x and RHEL-7.x server just fine.