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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance
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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

by Zeal Vora
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Central identity server

When the number of servers grows in an organization, it becomes very challenging to maintain and keep track of users and associated permissions. Furthermore, auditing also becomes difficult.

FreeIPA like Microsoft's Active Directory, is an open source project, sponsored by Red Hat, which makes it easy to manage the identity, policy, and audit for Linux-based servers.

In order to have easy and complete control over users, associated permissions, and audit data, having a centralized identity server is extremely important. In our case, FreeIPA is the tool of choice.

Let's understand the need for IPA with the help of two use cases:

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ISBN: 9781788299558