Ovirt devel - Apr 2008 - OVirt with OpenLDAP & Kerberos 5

Hello,

    We are trying to find a software to manage our virtualization 
servers and ovirt seems to be the one that fulfills all of our needs. 
But our architecture is based on mandriva 2008.0. We already have an 
LDAP & Kerberos architecture (based on openLDAP and Heimdal Krb5) and 
are quite cold on trying to migrate everything into freeIPA (too much 
work , only because ovirt needs it :-().

    Is the a way to plug ovirt on different LDAP/Kerberos servers ?

Cheers,

Julien GARET

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:06:41PM +0200, Julien Garet
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    We are trying to find a software to manage our virtualization servers 
> and ovirt seems to be the one that fulfills all of our needs. But our 
> architecture is based on mandriva 2008.0. We already have an LDAP & 
> Kerberos architecture (based on openLDAP and Heimdal Krb5) and are quite 
> cold on trying to migrate everything into freeIPA (too much work , only 
> because ovirt needs it :-().
>
>    Is the a way to plug ovirt on different LDAP/Kerberos servers ?
>
Hi there!

oVirt should work with any Kerberos server, although some of our
install scripts use IPA-specific tools. This is easy enough to get
around however.

In the medium-term we will be moving more and more of our user/group
model into LDAP. While there may be advantages to using IPA for your
LDAP server for oVirt, we do not intend to do anything IPA-specific in
that area either.

So to sum up, yes, but it may require a bit of effort (not too much).

Thanks for your interest in oVirt!

Take care,
--Hugh