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FreeIPA vs Mac OS X

Overview

FreeIPA

Stacks41

Followers100

Votes3

GitHub Stars1.1K

Forks359

Mac OS X

Stacks288

Followers196

Votes2

FreeIPA vs Mac OS X: What are the differences?

What is FreeIPA? Manage Linux users and client hosts in your realm from one central location with CLI, Web UI or RPC access. FreeIPA is an integrated Identity and Authentication solution for Linux/UNIX networked environments. A FreeIPA server provides centralized authentication, authorization and account information by storing data about user, groups, hosts and other objects necessary to manage the security aspects of a network of computers.

What is Mac OS X? A desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. It brings new features inspired by its most powerful users, but designed for everyone. Stay better focused on your work in Dark Mode. Automatically organize files using Stacks.

FreeIPA and Mac OS X belong to "Operating Systems" category of the tech stack.

FreeIPA is an open source tool with 317 GitHub stars and 186 GitHub forks. Here's a link to FreeIPA's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

FreeIPA	Mac OS X
FreeIPA is an integrated Identity and Authentication solution for Linux/UNIX networked environments. A FreeIPA server provides centralized authentication, authorization and account information by storing data about user, groups, hosts and other objects necessary to manage the security aspects of a network of computers.	It brings new features inspired by its most powerful users, but designed for everyone. Stay better focused on your work in Dark Mode. Automatically organize files using Stacks.
Built on top of well known Open Source components and standard protocols; Strong focus on ease of management and automation of installation and configuration tasks; Full multi master replication for higher redundancy and scalability; Extensible management interfaces (CLI, Web UI, XMLRPC and JSONRPC API) and Python SDK;	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 1.1K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 359	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 41	Stacks 288
Followers 100	Followers 196
Votes 3	Votes 2
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Manages sudo command groups and sudo commands 1 Manages host and host groups	Pros 1 Elegant, Minimalist look 1 Stability Cons 2 Expensive if you don't want to break the EULA 1 Even less customization
Integrations
Python Linux JSON	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to FreeIPA, Mac OS X?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Auth0

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Stormpath

Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Keycloak

It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

Devise

Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden

Firebase Authentication

It provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google,