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This patch contains 2 parts. The first part is a small utility to create and validate the current API. To do this it needs to load ipalib which on a fresh system introduces a few problems, namely that it relies on a python plugin to set the default encoding to utf8. For our purposes we can skip that. It is also important that any optional plugins be loadable so the API can be examined. The second part is a version exchange between the client and server. The version has a major and a minor version. The major verion is updated whenever existing API changes. The minor version is updated when new API is added. A request will be rejected if either the major versions don't match or if the client major version is higher than then server major version (though by implication new API would return a command not found if allowed to proceed). To determine the API version of the server from a client use the ping command. ticket 584
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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