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Getting Started

To get started, see the kanidm book

Feedback

We value your feedback! First, please see our code of conduct. If you have questions please join our gitter community channel so that we can help. If you find a bug or issue, we'd love you to report it to our issue tracker.

Release Notes

2022-08-02 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha9

This is the ninth alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

The project is shaping up very nicely, and a beta will be coming soon!

Release Highlights

  • Inclusion of a Python3 API library
  • Improve orca usability
  • Improved content security hashes of js/wasm elements
  • Performance improvements in builds
  • Windows development and service support
  • WebUI polish and improvements
  • Consent is remembered in oauth2 improving access flows
  • Replication changelog foundations
  • Compression middleware for static assests to reduce load times
  • User on boarding now possible with self service credential reset
  • TOTP and Webauthn/Passkey support in self service credential reset
  • CTAP2+ support in Webauthn via CLI
  • Radius supports EAP TLS identities in addition to EAP PEAP

2022-05-01 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha8

This is the eighth alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

Release Highlights

  • Foundations for cryptographic trusted device authentication
  • Foundations for new user onboarding and credential reset
  • Improve acis for administration of radius secrets
  • Simplify initial server setup related to domain naming
  • Improve authentication performance during high load
  • Developer documentation improvements
  • Resolve issues with client tool outputs not being displayed
  • Show more errors on api failures
  • Extend the features of account person set
  • Link pam with pkg-config allowing more portable builds
  • Allow self-service email addresses to be delegated
  • Highlight that the WebUI is in alpha to prevent confusion
  • Remove sync only client paths

2022-01-01 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha7

This is the seventh alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

Release Highlights

  • Oauth2 scope to group mappings
  • Webauthn subdomain support
  • Oauth2 rfc7662 token introspection
  • Basic OpenID Connect support
  • Improve performance of domain rename
  • Refactor of entry value internals to improve performance
  • Addition of email address attributes
  • Web UI improvements for Oauth2

2021-10-01 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha6

This is the sixth alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

It's also a special release as Kanidm has just turned 3 years old! Thank you all for helping to bring the project this far! 🎉 🦀

Release Highlights

  • Support backup codes as MFA in case of lost TOTP/Webauthn
  • Dynamic menus on CLI for usernames when multiple sessions exist
  • Dynamic menus on CLI for auth factors when choices exist
  • Better handle missing resources for web ui elements at server startup
  • Add WAL checkpointing to improve disk usage
  • Oauth2 user interface flows for simple authorisation scenarioes
  • Improve entry memory usage based on valueset rewrite
  • Allow online backups to be scheduled and taken
  • Reliability improvements for unixd components with missing sockets
  • Error message improvements for humans
  • Improve client address logging for auditing
  • Add strict HTTP resource headers for incoming/outgoing requests
  • Replace rustls with openssl for HTTPS endpoint
  • Remove auditscope in favour of the new tracing logging subsystem
  • Reduce server memory usage with entry tracking improvements
  • Improvements to performance with high cache sizes
  • Session tokens persist over a session restart

2021-07-07 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha5

This is the fifth alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

Release Highlights

  • Fix a major defect in how backup/restore worked
  • Improve query performance by caching partial queries
  • Clarity of error messages and user communication
  • Password badlist caching
  • Orca, a kanidm and ldap load testing system
  • TOTP usability improvements
  • Oauth2 foundations
  • CLI tool session management improvements
  • Default shell falls back if the requested shell is not found
  • Optional backup codes in case of lost MFA device
  • Statistical analysis of indexes to improve query optimisation
  • Handle broken TOTP authenticator apps

2021-04-01 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha4

This is the fourth alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

Release Highlights

  • Performance Improvements
  • TOTP CLI enrollment
  • Jemalloc in main server instead of system allocator
  • Command line completion
  • TLS file handling improvements
  • Webauthn authentication and enrollment on CLI
  • Add db vacuum task
  • Unix tasks daemon that automatically creates home directories
  • Support for sk-ecdsa public ssh keys
  • Badlist checked at login to determine account compromise
  • Minor Fixes for attribute display

2021-01-01 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha3

This is the third alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

Release Highlights

  • Account "valid from" and "expiry" times.
  • Rate limiting and softlocking of account credentials to prevent bruteforcing.
  • Foundations of webauthn and multiple credential support.
  • Rewrite of json authentication protocol components.
  • Unixd will cache "non-existant" items to improve nss/pam latency.

2020-10-01 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha2

This is the second alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

Release Highlights

  • SIMD key lookups in container builds for datastructures
  • Server and Client hardening warnings for running users and file permissions
  • Search limits and denial of unindexed searches to prevent denial-of-service
  • Dynamic Rounds for PBKDF2 based on CPU performance
  • Radius module upgraded to python 3
  • On-login PW upgrade, allowing weaker hashes to be re-computed to stronger variants on login.
  • Replace actix with tide and async
  • Reduction in memory footprint during searches
  • Change authentication from cookies to auth-bearer tokens

2020-07-01 - Kanidm 1.1.0-alpha1

This is the first alpha series release of the Kanidm Identity Management project. Alpha releases are to help get feedback and ideas from the community on how we can continue to make this project better for a future supported release.

It would not be possible to create a project like this, without the contributions and help of many people. I would especially like to thank:

  • Pando85
  • Alberto Planas (aplanas)
  • Jake (slipperyBishop)
  • Charelle (Charcol)
  • Leigh (excitedleigh)
  • Jamie (JJJollyjim)
  • Triss Healy (NiryaAestus)
  • Samuel Cabrero (scabrero)
  • Jim McDonough

Release Highlights

  • A working identity management server, including database
  • RADIUS authentication and docker images
  • Pam and Nsswitch resolvers for Linux/Unix authentication
  • SSH public key distribution
  • LDAP server front end for legacy applications
  • Password badlisting and quality checking
  • Memberof and reverse group management with referential integrity
  • Recycle Bin
  • Performance analysis tools