[Freeipa-interest] Re: [Freeipa-devel] Announcing FreeIPA v2 Server Alpha 1 Release

[Dmitri Pal]

Dmitri Pal wrote:

> To all freeipa-interest, freeipa-users and freeipa-devel list members,
>
> The FreeIPA project team is pleased to announce the availability of the
> Alpha 1 release of the long-awaited freeIPA 2.0 server [1].
>
> This version of the server includes:
> * Optionally installable DNS server
> * Optionally installable Certificate Authority to manage server certificates
> * NIS compatibility plug-in
>
> The freeIPA 2.0 server is capable of:
> * Managing host identities
> * Defining host-based access control rules that will be enforced
>   on the client side by the IPA back end for SSSD (not provided yet)
> * Serving netgroups based on user and host objects stored in IPA
> * Serving sets of automount maps to different clients
> * Finer-grained management delegation
> * Group-based password policies
>
> The freeIPA 2.0 release provides:
> * Pluggable and extensible framework for UI/CLI
> * Rich CLI
> * Certificate provisioning capabilities
>
> Current version of the server does not include web based user interface.
>
> FreeIPA 2.0 clients can be configured in the same way as freeIPA 1.2
> clients, using ipa-client install. For richer functionality freeIPA
> can be used with SSSD (System Security Services Daemon).
> The special freeIPA back end for SSSD developed by the SSSD project is
> not ready yet, however, the freeIPA 2.0 server can still be configured
> as a generic LDAP + Kerberos back end for SSSD.
>
> For more information about features delivered in this release, see
> documentation [2] on the freeIPA web site.
> For information on how to configure client systems to use freeIPA
> without SSSD, see freeIPA 1.2 documentation [3].
> For information on how freeIPA can be used in conjunction with SSSD,
> see the SSSD documentation [4].
> For all other freeIPA-related documentation [5], see freeIPA web site.
>
> [1] http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads/
>   

A quick correction to the link:

[1] http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads


Sorry for confusion.

> [2] http://www.freeipa.org/page/IPAv2_development_status#Documentation
> [3] http://freeipa.org/docs/1.2/Client_Setup_Guide/en-US/html/
> [4] https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/
> [5] http://www.freeipa.org/page/DocumentationPortal
>
>   


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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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