FreeIPA

Anyone use FreeIPA before? DNS and NTP I already have setup, but it seems to simplify LDAP pretty well which will help with securing my Hadoop deployment. Just hoping to get some thoughts!

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N2IT

I thought you were talking about Indian Pale Ale!

Mutata

Beer, where!?

cyberguypr

^ precisely where my mind went to.

the_Grinch

LOL I'm not a huge IPA guy, but I have stomach issue which is majority of the reason.

philz1982

the_Grinch wrote: »

Anyone use FreeIPA before? DNS and NTP I already have setup, but it seems to simplify LDAP pretty well which will help with securing my Hadoop deployment. Just hoping to get some thoughts!

Hey unrelated but I just applied for the MS ACS at DSU and will be working through this in order to apply to the DSc Cyber Security

the_Grinch

philz1982 - excellent!!! If you don't mind my asking, why not just apply for the DSc directly? They award the MSACS along the way anyhow. My boss is currently in the DSc and is really enjoying it.

philz1982

I was told b/c I have a Business Degree and do not have a CS Undergrad or Masters that I will need to get my CS Masters first. I am working on doing a parallel path where I do the ACS and then part of the way through switch into the DSc. Kind of like a 4+1 degree plan.

the_Grinch

Ah ok that would make sense! I don't doubt you'll kick some butt.

philz1982

They should let me skip the pre reqs i've got a 4.0 gpa for my msia with two classes left...

onesaint

I've used IPA at my last two $jobs. It's unpolished, but works really well. We are actually in process of setting up another IPA instance for use with our Hadoop cluster, currently.

the_Grinch

onesaint: excellent man! Seems we're doing the same work at the moment

the_Grinch

Free IPA rocks! Just got it setup and it went off without a hitch! Now to secure my Hadoop cluster!

philz1982

https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SecureMode.html