Fedora’s FreeIPA Offers Identity, Security Services

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 13, 2008

“Fedora 9, released last month, included the first release of
FreeIPA, a new free/open source project that comes out of Red Hat
with the goal of becoming a complete and integrated security
information management solution. In this article we take a look at
exactly what FreeIPA is, both what it can do now and what its
developers hope it will be capable of in the future. It seems
destined to become a key feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and
with Fedora 9 released and FreeIPA tightly integrated, now seems to
be the perfect time to explore this new technology.

“The project has been running for a year and has recently made
its 1.0 release…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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