They want you to buy their identity management server which is based upon 389 directory server. Or you could go with freeipa https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page

Will this change also affect centos?

Doug

Thanks,

Douglas Duckworth, MSc, LFCS HPC System Administrator Scientific Computing Unit Physiology and Biophysics Weill Cornell Medicine E: doug@med.cornell.edu O: 212-746-6305 F: 212-746-8690

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:

At Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:44:27 -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@symas.com wrote:

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Hello All,

As noted in the RHEL7.4 release notes (<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-

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RedHat will no longer support OpenLDAP Server starting with RHEL8.

Will RedHat be supporting an alternitive Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server? Or is RedHat dropping all sopport for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol servers?

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This is likely a good time to start planning your migration plans if you currently rely on RedHat's build of OpenLDAP. I would note that Symas provides certified builds for OpenLDAP with various support options available. An alternative for those who do not require support and do

not

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wish to build OpenLDAP themselves would be to use the LTB project builds.

Regards, Quanah

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