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Securing Linux - Centralized Authentication

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What you'll do

FreeIPA is an open source, fully featured system for managing user accounts and accesses to hosts, that has a number of features that we will cover that make it very useful and easy to use.

  • It also supports Kerberos, the cryptographic protocol for managing access used by AD and consequently allows it to be used in an AD environment, as well as supporting Linux-specific features like mapping system users…
  • In this lab, we will explore basic setup and configuration and look into a few of the features that we can use to limit access.

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