FreeIPA vs Keypaste
FreeIPA and Keypaste are both secrets management software. FreeIPA is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.3k GitHub stars. Keypaste is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 703 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick FreeIPA when
- You manage many Linux servers and need centralised logins, sudo rules and certificates, often alongside Active Directory.
- Pick Keypaste when
- You use AI coding agents and want them to use API keys only with your approval.
Side by side
An integrated identity system for Linux environments combining LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, a certificate authority and host-based access control, with AD trust support.
A KeePass-compatible vault for logins and project environment variables that runs commands with secrets injected and asks you before an AI agent receives any secret.
Tied to the Red Hat and Fedora ecosystem and complex to run; GitHub is only a mirror.
Two months old; only a CLI is published and the desktop app has no release yet.
Production-ready
Experimental
Self-hosted server
Command line and desktop app
Python, C, 389 Directory Server, Kerberos and Dogtag
C#, .NET and MCP
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
1.3k GitHub stars
703 GitHub stars
Established: started 14 years ago, no tagged release yet.
New: started 1 month ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.