FreeIPA

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FreeIPA
Developer Red Hat
Stable release
4.12.5 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 30 September 2025;2 months ago (30 September 2025)
Repository
Written in C [2] and Python [3]
Operating system Linux / Unix
Type Identity management
License GNU General Public License
Website www.freeipa.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

FreeIPA is a free and open source identity management system. FreeIPA is the upstream open-source project for Red Hat Identity Management. [4]

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Overview

FreeIPA aims to provide a centrally-managed identity, policy, and audit (IPA) system. [5] It uses a combination of Fedora Linux, 389 Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS, the Dogtag certificate system, SSSD and other free/open-source components. FreeIPA includes extensible management interfaces (CLI, Web UI, XMLRPC and JSONRPC API) and Python SDK for the integrated CA, and BIND with a custom plugin for the integrated DNS server. Each of the major components of FreeIPA operates as a preexisting free/open-source project. The bundling of these components into a single manageable suite with a comprehensive management interface is GPLv3, but that does not change the licenses of the components. [6]

Since version 3.0.0, FreeIPA uses Samba to integrate with Microsoft's Active Directory by way of Cross Forest Trusts. FreeIPA provides support for Linux, Unix-based, Windows and Mac OS X computers. [7] [8]

Software components

ComponentDetails
Fedora Linux Linux operating system
389 Directory Server LDAP implementation
MIT's Kerberos 5 authentication and single sign-on
ntpd network time protocol
Apache HTTP Server Web UI and management framework
Python management framework
DogTag PKI certificate authority
PluginDescription
Fleet CommanderDesktop configuration tool that works alongside Cockpit and SSSD to store customized profile templates into FreeIPA's LDAP database. Broadly comparable to Windows GPOs.

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-12-5.html.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ C Coding Style - Free IPA
  3. ↑ Python Coding Style - Free IPA
  4. ↑ Red Hat Identity Manager: Part 1 – Overview and Getting started
  5. ↑ Negus, Christopher; Foster-Johnson, Eric (2011). Fedora Bible 2011 Edition: Featuring Fedora Linux 14. Indianapolis: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   9781118085738 . Retrieved 2016-09-01. The "IPA" part of FreeIPA stands for identity (identifying and authenticating users and machines), policy (settings for access control of applications and machines), and audit (methods for collecting and auditing security events, logs, and user activities).
  6. ↑ "GPL License - Top 10 Questions Answered". Mend. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  7. ↑ M, Ahmer (15 September 2022). "How to install FreeIPA Server on Rocky Linux 9". CentLinux. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  8. ↑ "Active_Directory_trust_setup — FreeIPA documentation". www.freeipa.org. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
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