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There are two reasons for the plugin framework: 1. To provide a way of doing manual/complex LDAP changes without having to keep extending ldapupdate.py (like we did with managed entries). 2. Allows for better control of restarts. There are two types of plugins, preop and postop. A preop plugin runs before any file-based updates are loaded. A postop plugin runs after all file-based updates are applied. A preop plugin may update LDAP directly or craft update entries to be applied with the file-based updates. Either a preop or postop plugin may attempt to restart the dirsrv instance. The instance is only restartable if ipa-ldap-updater is being executed as root. A warning is printed if a restart is requested for a non-root user. Plugins are not executed by default. This is so we can use ldapupdate to apply simple updates in commands like ipa-nis-manage. https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1789 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1790 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2032
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
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<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
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