[Freeipa-users] Backwards compatability

[Martin Kosek]

On 03/11/2015 06:46 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 03/11/2015 01:13 PM, Andrew Holway wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a mix of Centos 6 and Centos 7 machines which we would like to manage
>> with FreeIPA.
>>
>> I remember that setting up freeipa on Centos 6 can be a bit tricky although I
>> found this method which works.
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2013-June/msg00064.html
>>
>> I imagine the Centos 7 client setup is somewhat more streamlined.
>>
>> Assuming we install freeipa on Centos 7, will our centos 6 clients have any
>> problem connection? Any caveats which we should be aware of?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
> Clients should work without any issues.
> 
> The only thing to keep in mind is that IPA's remote management CLI should be
> used from the systems of the same versions as the server. In other words the
> ipa-admintools package that contains CLI would not work from CentOS 6  system
> against CentOS 7 system. But would work from 7 to 7.

Right. Compatiblity is explained also on upstream wiki:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Client#Compatibility

Martin