[Freeipa-users] ipa v4 on CentOS6

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:02:14PM +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 08/17/2015 01:15 PM, Ramy Allam wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm running ipa-server-4.1.0-18.el7.centos.4.x86_64 on a CentoOS 7 machine. And
> >need to setup ipa-4.1.0 on a CentOS *6* machine.
> >
> >CentOS 6 repo has ipa-client-3 available. Where can i find v4 for CentOS 6 please ?
> >
> >The reason i need to setup ipa-clientv4 on CentOS6 is clientv3 doesn't support
> >OTP authentication.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We do not plan backporting FreeIPA 4.0+ on CentOS-6, there is simply too
> many dependencies that are not there. Running purely on CentOS-7.1 looks as
> the least painful way to me.
> 
> You can still of course have clients (SSSD) on CentOS-6. Jakub, can you
> please remind me what are the limitation with regards to SSSD&OTP on RHEL-6?

The SSSD code is there, but the Kerberos library version is the limit. We
can't rebase to a newer one but at the same time it's impossible to backport
the changes.

Sorry, but new features sometimes require using a new system..

> 
> Advanced conversations like https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2335 will
> not be possible of course, that's expected.