[TriLUG] [Spam] Re: If you had to choose: Windows vs Mac for Linux graphical VM

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

I'll echo this.  I maintain user accounts and sudo rules in IPA, and it 
works pretty well for me.  I can also run ipa commands from the command 
line to query and modify it... something I would have a miserable time 
with against AD.

That said, searching for things in IPA is a PITA.  So I wrote a Perl 
script to dump the sorts of things I do want to search into a giant Perl 
data structure, that I can either search in a text editor, or ingest into 
another Perl program.

William Sutton

On Mon, 5 Jan 2026, Lance A. Brown via TriLUG wrote:

> FreeIPA covers a lot of the basics that AD provides without having to touch 
> the dreaded MS ecosystem.
>
> --[Lance]
>
> Stephen Wiley via TriLUG wrote on 1/4/2026 9:43 AM:
>> Yeah that's the thing. There are a zillion projects that could
>> technically replace AD but none of them are actually *good* (and at the
>> end of the day you could technically hack it with ansible and ssh certs.
>> Your don't even *need* all this if you're just looking at the
>> technology.)
>>
>> It's really almost this social problem where the UX, training pipeline,
>> support etc matters as much as the actual technical artifacts. Nominally
>> RedHat has IPA which is supposed to cover all this but anyone who's
>> actually used IPA will argue for AD if they need to *do* anything.
>>
>> -- Stephen
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