[Freeipa-users] Is systemd really a requirement for freeipa 4.x?

[Rob Crittenden]

Coy Hile wrote:
> When I look at the SPEC file for freeipa-4.1.3, I see requirements
> around Systemd.  Is that really a hard requirement, or is it possible to
> run newer FreeIPA (that is to say 4.x) on a host that hasn't been
> infested by systemd (such as CentOS 6, for example)?  At the moment, I'm
> speaking completely of the server components.

There are a slew of major dependencies that prevent IPA 4.x from working
in RHEL/CentOS 6. It would be quite non-trivial to try to backport
everything needed.

rob