FreeIPA
FreeIPA is an open source identity management system developed by Red Hat. It was first released in 2007.
FreeIPA - IPA stands for Identity, Policy, Audit - bundles several open source components to provide a centrally managed system for identity. It offers in particular an LDAP server with 389 DS, SSO using Kerberos, an integrated certificate authority based on Dogtag and a DNS. Identities can be managed through a CLI, a web interface or RCP.
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