Has anyone out there successfully set up Puppet to use FreeIPA as an LDAP provider for user resources ? I found  https://www.freeipa.org/page/HowTo/LDAP  which says: This use also has no special rights and is unable to write any data in the IPA LDAP server, only read. but this page https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.7/types/user.html#user-provider-ldap says: User management via LDAP:  This provider requires that you have valid values for all of the LDAP-related settings in puppet.conf, including ldapbase. You will almost definitely need settings for ldapuser and ldappassword in order for your clients to write to LDAP. Thus my dilemma.  Can I make the IPA "service account" read-write or can Puppet live with read-only ? ------------------------------------------------ “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”  (Bill Waterson: Calvin & Hobbes)