[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment

[Sigbjorn Lie]

Hi,

I would like to see the ipa client scripts and possibly the admin tools 
in a nice Solaris package. This would make my job a lot easier as we 
have a lot of customers running Solaris. :)

For the server part I agree with you, keep it at RHEL.

SSSD @ Solaris / HP-UX / AIX ... well there isn't much (if any) of the 
UNIX vendors selling their iron as client machines anymore. And I don't 
see a considerable benefit in adding SSSD to servers, who will be well 
connected to the network anyway.



Rgds,
Siggi


On 05/10/2011 11:31 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 05/10/2011 05:11 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There are OSS packages that can be installed into Solaris.....so I dont see why freeipa cant be ported....at least the x86 CPU version anyway.
> I think this will be a huge undertaking. It is not that simple. And is
> there really a value for IPA to be on Solaris?
> I can understand the client part but the server is less important. It is
> a dedicated server running on BM or VM so does it really matter what os
> it is running as long it is supported and affordable?
>
> We as a dev community will be open to any effort to port the whole stack
> to some other distribution but I bet there are better uses for someones
> energy that we can utilize to deliver better functionality to this user
> community.
>
> Client is a different issue. I tried to talk to IBM, HP and Sun a year
> ago. They are not interested in porting SSSD to their platforms.
>
>>   Oracle/Sun may not want to do IPA but if you had ever had the mis-fortune to try and use Oracle's IdM / OVD /OID you'd understand why few techies/ppl/businesses want it.....its bloody awful to install let alone work with or maintain....So its turns into a risky endeavour and no one sane wants that much risk in their business....let alone the 6 figure costs..........and yes Im talking over a million....
>>
>> Hopefully we are getting away from the silo attitude of vendors.....Vendors might want only their products in a customer site, but realistically customers dont want that for lots of reasons, and pillaging your wallet is one of the biggest....
>>
>> In our case all that happens is we wont buy Sun kit if it doesnt work the way we want to work....their loss.
>>
>> regards
>> ________________________________________
>> From: freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com] on behalf of Dmitri Pal [dpal at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 8:24 a.m.
>> To: freeipa-users at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] FreeIPA for Linux desktop deployment
>>
>> On 05/10/2011 04:10 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Its quite interesting that there are no real clients for ipa outside of RH/Fedora....this will probably do more to delay or restrict its adoption than anything else.
>>>
>> Not sure what you are talking about. Any kerberos enabled service is a
>> service and any pam_krb5/nss_ldap or SSSD enabled system can be a client.
>> SSSD is in Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, RH
>> Would be nice to have it in other OSs like Solaris and HP-UX but they
>> have other plans.
>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Steven
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