[wplug] FreeIPA

[Justin Smith]

One of my IT friends sent me a link the other day to a Spiceworks article about finding Active Directory alternatives in Linux environments. The article mainly talked about Samba, which can act as an Active Directory domain controller.

Amusingly enough, the authors completely missed FreeIPA, which is the closest Linux-centric alternative. It's a Red Hat-sponsored project that includes the 389 Directory Server, Kerberos, DNS server, and a whole lot else. You can even define Linux policies for your FreeIPA domain and even set up a trust relationship with Active Directory.

Where I work - admittedly, a small business - I just set up a trio of FreeIPA servers that we'll be using in our environment. The documentation is a bit spotty at times, but it honestly wasn't that hard to set up FreeIPA. Does anyone else have experience with it? I'm pretty sure Joe said that he's used it before.

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Justin Smith
System Administrator