FreeIPA

Infobox Software
name = FreeIPA



caption =
developer = Red Hat
latest_release_version = 1.1
latest_release_date = 20 June 2008
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system = Linux / Unix
genre = Identity management
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://www.freeipa.org/ freeipa.org]

FreeIPA is a Red Hat sponsored open source project which aims to provide an easily managed Identity, Policy and Audit (IPA) package primarily targeted towards networks of Linux and Unix computers. FreeIPA can be compared to Novell's Identity Manager or Microsoft's Active Directory in that the goals and mechanisms used are similar.

FreeIPA currently uses Fedora Directory Server for its LDAP implementation and MIT's Kerberos 5 for authentication and single sign-on. This year FreeRADIUS and SAMBA are also to be included in the freeIPA solution.

While each of the major components of FreeIPA is a pre-existing open source project it is the bundling of these components into a single manageable suite that make FreeIPA more comparable to its proprietary software cousins, Identity Manager and Active Directory.

FreeIPA aims to provide support not just for Linux and Unix based computers but ultimately Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers also.

External links

* [http://www.freeipa.org/ Official website]