Post #2938705
2026-05-15 08:31 UTC
Fyi, the email thread where using OpenLDAP for FreeIPA was discussed appears to have been scrubbed from Red Hat's email archives. A reference to it is here in 2009 https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/message/PJ3AEDS42JWGM2CJRNSQB4VUCN2WDKWS/ but RedHat's own archives only go back to 2017 now.
One reason we still prefer email lists in the OpenLDAP Project is knowledge is shared and preserved indefinitely. The whole point of open source is sharing knowledge. I guess Red Hat doesn't care about that, either.
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@hyc@mastodon.social 2026-05-15 10:01
Ah, archive.org still has most of it. https://web.archive.org/web/20190727013018/https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2009-June/msg00300.html "Pros on OpenLDAP: * It'll make FreeIPA mor "standard" * It'll help adding better support on other LDAP implementations * Shoter TTM for having "FreeIPA Server" in Ubuntu Cons on OpenLDAP: * It'll lower the need for 389DS * Some features available in 389DS will be missing (and when available they won't be so stable)"