LinuxCon North America/CloudOpen North America

The talk will cover the FreeIPA and partially SSSD projects introducing FreeIPA as the first fully functional open source centralized authentication and identity management solution comparable to Active Directory in its capabilities but focusing primarily on the identity management needs of the Linux and UNIX client systems.
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Leaflet.

The talk would target system administrators that are looking for efficient ways of centrally managing authentication, identities and related policies for Linux systems as a part of complex heterogeneous environments. The talk will suggest ways on how Linux systems can be most efficiently managed and integrated into AD environment. The goal is to make audience aware of the newest technologies available in the identity management space. The complexity is medium.