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Created page with "In REL1_27 MediaWiki gained a complete rewrite of it's authentication and authorization system. Thanks to Cindy Cicalese and others, the Pluggable Auth fr..."
In REL1_27 MediaWiki gained a complete rewrite of it's authentication and authorization system. Thanks to Cindy Cicalese and others, the [[mw:PluggableAuth|Pluggable Auth]] framework was introduced. It provides the ability to layer in a variety of authentication systems. For example, RedHat develops the [https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page FreeIPA] system which provides Identity, Policy and Trusts. FreeIPA is an Open Source <ref>note that much of the code is GPL licensed, however since there are multiple components, each has it's own license. See the [https://www.freeipa.org/page/License license page for FreeIPA]. </ref> Identity Management Solution that <ref>quote from the code hosting site (Pagure) for FreeIPA: https://pagure.io/freeipa</ref>
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provides unified installation and management tools for the following components:
* LDAP Server - based on the [http://www.port389.org/ 389 project]
* KDC - based on [http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Main_Page MIT Kerberos] implementation
* PKI based on [http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page Dogtag project]
* [http://www.samba.org/ Samba] libraries for Active Directory integration
* DNS Server based on [https://www.isc.org/software/bind BIND] and the [https://pagure.io/bind-dyndb-ldap Bind-DynDB-LDAP plugin]
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In turn, the FreeIPA wiki website is integrated with the Fedora Central Login via MediaWiki's Pluggable Auth and OpenID Connect <ref>The Special:Version page of the wiki shows what's installed: https://www.freeipa.org/page/Special:Version</ref>
[[Category:Infrastructure]]
[[Category:Authentication]]
[[Category:System Administration]]
[[Category:Identity]]
[[Category:User management]]
[[Category:Security]]
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provides unified installation and management tools for the following components:
* LDAP Server - based on the [http://www.port389.org/ 389 project]
* KDC - based on [http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Main_Page MIT Kerberos] implementation
* PKI based on [http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page Dogtag project]
* [http://www.samba.org/ Samba] libraries for Active Directory integration
* DNS Server based on [https://www.isc.org/software/bind BIND] and the [https://pagure.io/bind-dyndb-ldap Bind-DynDB-LDAP plugin]
</blockquote>
In turn, the FreeIPA wiki website is integrated with the Fedora Central Login via MediaWiki's Pluggable Auth and OpenID Connect <ref>The Special:Version page of the wiki shows what's installed: https://www.freeipa.org/page/Special:Version</ref>
[[Category:Infrastructure]]
[[Category:Authentication]]
[[Category:System Administration]]
[[Category:Identity]]
[[Category:User management]]
[[Category:Security]]
