Congratulations! V2 is so tantalizingly close that I'm salivating. Big thanks to the whole team. I have my new virtualization server up now so I hope that I can find the time to do some testing on the alpha. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Dmitri Pal <<a href="mailto:dpal@redhat.com">dpal@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">Dmitri Pal wrote: > To all freeipa-interest, freeipa-users and freeipa-devel list members, > > The FreeIPA project team is pleased to announce the availability of the > Alpha 1 release of the long-awaited freeIPA 2.0 server [1]. > > This version of the server includes: > * Optionally installable DNS server > * Optionally installable Certificate Authority to manage server certificates > * NIS compatibility plug-in > > The freeIPA 2.0 server is capable of: > * Managing host identities > * Defining host-based access control rules that will be enforced > on the client side by the IPA back end for SSSD (not provided yet) > * Serving netgroups based on user and host objects stored in IPA > * Serving sets of automount maps to different clients > * Finer-grained management delegation > * Group-based password policies > > The freeIPA 2.0 release provides: > * Pluggable and extensible framework for UI/CLI > * Rich CLI > * Certificate provisioning capabilities > > Current version of the server does not include web based user interface. > > FreeIPA 2.0 clients can be configured in the same way as freeIPA 1.2 > clients, using ipa-client install. For richer functionality freeIPA > can be used with SSSD (System Security Services Daemon). > The special freeIPA back end for SSSD developed by the SSSD project is > not ready yet, however, the freeIPA 2.0 server can still be configured > as a generic LDAP + Kerberos back end for SSSD. > > For more information about features delivered in this release, see > documentation [2] on the freeIPA web site. > For information on how to configure client systems to use freeIPA > without SSSD, see freeIPA 1.2 documentation [3]. > For information on how freeIPA can be used in conjunction with SSSD, > see the SSSD documentation [4]. > For all other freeIPA-related documentation [5], see freeIPA web site. > > [1] <a href="http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads/" target="_blank">http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads/</a> > </div></div>A quick correction to the link: <div class="im"> [1] <a href="http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads" target="_blank">http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads</a> </div>Sorry for confusion. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > [2] <a href="http://www.freeipa.org/page/IPAv2_development_status#Documentation" target="_blank">http://www.freeipa.org/page/IPAv2_development_status#Documentation</a> > [3] <a href="http://freeipa.org/docs/1.2/Client_Setup_Guide/en-US/html/" target="_blank">http://freeipa.org/docs/1.2/Client_Setup_Guide/en-US/html/</a> > [4] <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/</a> > [5] <a href="http://www.freeipa.org/page/DocumentationPortal" target="_blank">http://www.freeipa.org/page/DocumentationPortal</a> > > -- Thank you, Dmitri Pal Engineering Manager IPA project, Red Hat Inc. ------------------------------- Looking to carve out IT costs? <a href="http://www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/" target="_blank">www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/</a> _______________________________________________ Freeipa-interest mailing list <a href="mailto:Freeipa-interest@redhat.com">Freeipa-interest@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-interest" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-interest</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>