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We have a larger goal of replacing all DN creation via string formatting/concatenation with DN object operations because string operations are not a safe way to form a DN nor to compare a DN. This work needs to be broken into smaller chunks for easier review and testing. Addressing the unit tests first makes sense because we don't want to be modifying both the core code and the tests used to verify the core code simultaneously. If we modify the unittests first with existing core code and no regressions are found then we can move on to modifying parts of the core code with the belief the unittests can validate the changes in the core code. Also by doing the unittests first we also help to validate the DN objects are working correctly (although they do have an extensive unittest). The fundamental changes are: * replace string substitution & concatenation with DN object constructor * when comparing dn's the comparision is done after promotion to a DN object, then two DN objects are compared * when a list of string dn's are to be compared a new list is formed where each string dn is replaced by a DN object * because the unittest framework accepts a complex data structure of expected values where dn's are represeted as strings the unittest needs to express the expected value of a dn as a callable object (e.g. a lambda expression) which promotes the dn string to a DN object in order to do the comparision.
IPA Server
What is it?
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For efficiency, compliance and risk mitigation, organizations need to
centrally manage and correlate vital security information including:
* Identity (machine, user, virtual machines, groups, authentication
credentials)
* Policy (configuration settings, access control information)
* Audit (events, logs, analysis thereof)
Since these are not new problems. there exist many approaches and
products focused on addressing them. However, these tend to have the
following weaknesses:
* Focus on solving identity management across the enterprise has meant
less focus on policy and audit.
* Vendor focus on Web identity management problems has meant less well
developed solutions for central management of the Linux and Unix
world's vital security info. Organizations are forced to maintain
a hodgepodge of internal and proprietary solutions at high TCO.
* Proprietary security products don't easily provide access to the
vital security information they collect or manage. This makes it
difficult to synchronize and analyze effectively.
The Latest Version
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Details of the latest version can be found on the IPA server project
page under <http://www.freeipa.org/>.
Documentation
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The most up-to-date documentation can be found at
<http://freeipa.org/page/Documentation/>.
Quick Start
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To get started quickly, start here:
<https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/wiki/QuickStartGuide>
Licensing
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Please see the file called COPYING.
Contacts
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* If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,
security fixes, general news and information about the IPA server
subscribe to the freeipa-announce mailing list at
<https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-interest/>.
* If you have a bug report please submit it at:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com>
* If you want to participate in actively developing IPA please
subscribe to the freeipa-devel mailing list at
<https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel/> or join
us in IRC at irc://irc.freenode.net/freeipa