<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span name="x"></span><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">Hello all,<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div style="">I have been playing with trying to set up synchronization between windows AD --> IPA following the instructions at</div><div style=""><a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/index.html" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/index.html</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div>A few questions arise;</div><div><br></div><div style="">1.) The documentation (specifically on <a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/managing-sync-agmt.html" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/managing-sync-agmt.html</a>), (under table 9.2) talks about options to the "ipa-replica-manage connect" command. Among others, --bindpw and --passsync. With --binddn we specify the "full user DN of the synchronization identity" (and it's password with --bindpw ... but I fail to understand which users password should be used for "--passsync"?? Is it the same user?</div></div></blockquote><div>The "--passsync" password is the password that you *will* use for the "passsync" user should you install the password synchronization package on your AD controllers. You are essentially setting this password preemptively.<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><br></div><div style="">2.) The documentation says that the "synchronization identity" (see also above) must exist in the AD domain and "must have replicator, read, search and write permissions on the AD subtree. What I am trying to do is create a one way sync from AD --> IPA and I would really like to avoid using a user (for synching) that has write permissions (in the AD). All my tries in setting up synchronization fails unless I add the synch-user to the group "Administrators". I have tried (and failed) using "account admins" etc. Any pointers here would be great. Sorry for my ignorance when it comes to Windows. I am sure I am missing something obvious.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Someone else can probably comment on this, but the IPA server will need to bind to the AD controller and pull the necessary information from the directory...which makes these rights a necessity.<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><br></div><div style="">3.) I follow the instructions under "9.4.5" (<a href="https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/managing-sync-agmt.html#unidirectional-sync" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Identity_Management_Guide/managing-sync-agmt.html#unidirectional-sync</a>) to setup Uni-directional sync. (only AD --> IPA), and yet, when I go to remove an account in IPA it gets removed also in the AD. (This I really want to avoid, thus the need for a read-only user to do the synchronization - see question 2).</div></div></blockquote><div>I do not recall IPA ever removing users from AD. From what I remember, only certain attributes were bi-directional and deletes were not performed on AD. Has this changed?<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">All in all I think the FreeIPA project is amazing and it really gives us in the Linux community something we haven't had before. If I can iron out the problems above I am sure it will become a great tool for me and my client.</div><div style=""><br>Any input would be most appreciated.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Thanks</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">//James.</div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Freeipa-users mailing list<br>Freeipa-users@redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users</blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>