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Identity, Policy and Audit information are vitally important and interrelated in the daily operation of any business. Such information should be managed centrally, and interoperate with a heterogeneous of existing systems, protocols and tools. FreeIPA is an open-source and integrated solution, providing centrally managed and correlate vital security information including:

• Identity (machines, users, groups, credentials, etc)
• Policy (access control for machines and services)
• Audit (information query log)

By combining Linux, 389 Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, DNS, FreeIPA offers centralised authentication, authorization and account information, in networked Linux environments.