FreeIPA is a free and open source identity management system. FreeIPA is the

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Red Hat Identity Management

Overview

FreeIPA aims to provide a centrally managed Identity, Policy, and

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(IPA) system. It uses a combination of Fedora Linux,

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, MIT Kerberos, NTP,

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, 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