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Rob Crittenden 999bd4fb1e In the UI we don't want to display Edit links unless someone can actually
edit things. We use the 'editors' group for this. This group itself grants
no permission other than displaying certain things in the UI.

In order to be in the editors group a user must be a member of a group that
is the source group in a delegation. The memberof plugin will do all the
hard work to be sure that a user's memberof contains cn=editors if they
are in a delegated group.

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IPA uses Kerberos with an LDAP storage backend and some custom plugins
to help manage users and passwords.

A UI interface is provided to make user administration and self-service
possible. A set of command-line utilities that should provide the same
capabilities is in ipa-admintools.

Firefox
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The Gecko engine provides an interface for managing a user's configuration
in Javascript. Naturally this is highly protected and the user gets an
appropriately dire warning when you try to do this. It also requires 
signed javascript.

During installation a signing certificate is created that creates
and signs /usr/share/ipa/html/configure.jar which contains the javascript
to update the browser configuration. User's are directed to go to
/errors/preferencs.html to load this javascript and apply the changes.