From 5e0ca17ca06ad26f291d4738766e194b3784c5bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Vobornik Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:04:03 +0100 Subject: Change README to use Markdown So that it will be nicely formatted on FreeIPA Pagure landing page. https://pagure.io/freeipa Some links were updated as other projects also moved to Pagure.io. Reviewed-By: Stanislav Laznicka --- README.md | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9608453b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +# FreeIPA Server + +FreeIPA allows Linux administrators to centrally manage identity, +authentication and access control aspects of Linux and UNIX systems +by providing simple to install and use command line and web based +managment tools. + +FreeIPA is built on top of well known Open Source components and standard +protocols with a very strong focus on ease of management and automation +of installation and configuration tasks. + +FreeIPA can seamlessly integrate into an Active Directory environment via +cross-realm Kerberos trust or user synchronization. + +## Benefits + +FreeIPA: + +* Allows all your users to access all the machines with the same credentials + and security settings +* Allows users to access personal files transparently from any machine in + an authenticated and secure way +* Uses an advanced grouping mechanism to restrict network access to services + and files only to specific users +* Allows central management of security mechanisms like passwords, + SSH Public Keys, SUDO rules, Keytabs, Access Control Rules +* Enables delegation of selected administrative tasks to other power users +* Integrates into Active Directory environments + +## Components + +The FreeIPA project provides unified installation and management +tools for the following components: + +* LDAP Server - based on the [389 project](http://www.port389.org/) +* KDC - based on [MIT Kerberos](http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Main_Page) + implementation +* PKI based on [Dogtag project](http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page) +* [Samba](http://www.samba.org/) libraries for Active Directory integration +* DNS Server based on [BIND](https://www.isc.org/software/bind) and the + [Bind-DynDB-LDAP plugin](https://pagure.io/bind-dyndb-ldap) + +## Project Website + +Releases, announcements and other information can be found on the IPA +server project page at http://www.freeipa.org/ . + +## Documentation + +The most up-to-date documentation can be found at +http://freeipa.org/page/Documentation . + +## Quick Start + +To get started quickly, start here: +http://www.freeipa.org/page/Quick_Start_Guide + +## Licensing + +Please see the file called COPYING. + +## Contacts + +* 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://pagure.io/freeipa/issues +* 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 -- cgit