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Many functions use low-level socket interface for connection or various checks. However, most of the time we don't respect automatic address family detection but rather try to force our values. This may cause either redundat connection tries when an address family is disabled on system tries or even crashes when socket exceptions are not properly caught. Instead of forcing address families to socket, rather use getaddrinfo interface to automatically retrieve a list of all relevant address families and other connection settings when connecting to remote/local machine or binding to a local port. Now, we will also fill correctly all connection parameters like flowinfo and scopeid for IPv6 connections which will for example prevent issues with scoped IPv6 addresses. bind_port_responder function was changed to at first try to bind to IPv6 wildcard address before IPv4 as IPv6 socket is able to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 connections (unlike IPv4 socket). nsslib connection was refactored to use nss.io.AddrInfo class to get all the available connections. Socket is now not created by default in NSSConnection class initializer, but rather when the actual connection is being made, becase we do not an address family where connection is successful. https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2913 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2695
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