Hi So the archive version of freeipa-client on Ubuntu 12.04 has been in a limbo state until now, because the package got reworked too much for newer releases that trying to push updates would have taken a lot of paperwork and other effort..
But 14.10/utopic finally has a smoothly installing client based on 3.3.4, and I've also pushed the updates fixing ntp/chronyd issues to 14.04 (not accepted to trusty-proposed yet) and backported this version to 12.04 too. You can install it for 12.04 from the freeipa ppa: apt-add-repository ppa:freeipa https://launchpad.net/~freeipa/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages and for this you also need the sssd ppa: apt-add-repository ppa:sssd/updates https://launchpad.net/~sssd/+archive/ubuntu/updates I've verified that install/uninstall works fine, certmonger stop/start fails on uninstall but it should be harmless. Only thing missing from it that I know of is that --mkhomedir does not work because of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeipa/+bug/1336869 Also, beware that the version of nss on the ppa gets obsolete when a new security release is published, which means that new installs should create nssdb's by hand, or forcefully install the ppa version once and then upgrade.. the db's shouldn't vanish on upgrade. ps. server is still WIP, currently blocked on getting Dogtag deps accepted in the Debian archive, but the goal is still to have everything in by November before 'jessie' freezes.. we'll see -- t -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go To http://freeipa.org for more info on the project