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+# FreeIPA
+I have deployed a centos8 VM in FreeNAS to test out a FreeIPA deployment (mostly for the certificate authority).
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+Ideally this would also be the DNS and DHCPd server, however I have not taken time to take a look at the changes to the network infrastructure required for this.
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