ipa-admintools on RHEL 7 does not work with RHEL 6 IPA Server

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Environment

RHEL7 client: ipa-client-3.3.3-5.el7.x86_64
RHEL6 server: ipa-server-3.0.0-37.el6.x86_64

Issue

ipa-admintools on RHEL 7 does not work with RHEL 6 IPA Server

Resolution

ipa management tool only maintains forward compatibility.Hence ipa-management-tools installed on a RHEL 7 server will not work on a IPA server installed on a RHEL 6 server.

Important : Other client functionalities are backward compatible. Hence you would be able to authenticate a RHEL 7 client against RHEL 6 IPA Server.

Root Cause

ipa management tool only maintains forward compatibility.

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