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Penrose 2.0 ships OpenDS, MINA, FedoraDS, and ApacheDS as Penrose’s LDAP Service Providers (SP). OpenDS SP is now enabled by default in Penrose 2.0. We have put together a presentation below to describe how we integrate OpenDS into Penrose. We will be co-presenting with Sun at JavaOne/CommunityOne 2008 next May. Here is a portion of [...]
Penrose 2.0 introduces a new concept called Directory Application Archive (DAR). It mimics tomcat’s WAR/EAR files. we have a new directory structure and separate class loader for each partition. DAR files (files with a .dar extension) are intended
NIS vs LDAP Gateway
NIS Gateway is a software which uses LDAP as its information source while permitting existing NIS clients to transparently use LDAP to resolve user, group and host information.
LDAP Gateway does the opposite. It
Penrose can be use to provide an account lockout to block password guessing attack. Most directory servers aren’t equipped with this type of functionality. You will need to download our Penrose 2.0 nightly build to do this. Checkout the detailed configuration after the jump.
Safehaus is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Velo 1.0. Velo is an open source provisioning server with workflow, auditing and access management feature.
New and Noteworthy Features:
SPML V2 compliance. new!
Role
One of our customer is a large server hosting company. They currently maintain a large customer e-mails in Microsoft SQL 2005. They need to configure their SMTP/anti-spam software to authenticate/look-up against those customer information. Their
We added NIS Adapter support with the recent release of Penrose 1.2. Penrose Server can now translates NIS entries to LDAP view according to RFC 2703. Below is the snapshot of what NIS entries looks like in Penrose Studio.
What is the primary benefit of NIS virtualization ? In nutshell, it allows organizations who are still [...]
Penrose 1.2.1 is out. This minor release fix a serious bug on Penrose Studio when dealing with Active Directory RootDSE and Schema. You can download it here: http://penrose.safehaus.org/penrose12/penrose-1X2-release.html
We, also, added a documentation on our 3-clicks wizard for creating an LDAP/AD Proxy using Penrose Studio.
With the latest release of Penrose 1.2, we completed our integration with the latest release of OpenDS (0.9). Penrose 1.2 bundles OpenDS, however, by default it is not enabled.
Here is a very simple instruction on how to enable OpenDS in Penrose.
Penrose can provide an LDAP layer on top of a Crowd database, as well as implement a password decrypt/decode function, so that applications can authenticate using the same passwords that are stored in Crowd without duplicating user information. Detail instruction after the jump..
Penrose 1.2 is here.
The Safehaus Penrose team is proud to announce Penrose 1.2. Special thanks to Pete Rowley (FedoraDS) and Neil Wilson (OpenDS) and all the nice people who contributed to this release: Ricardo A. Gorosito, Michael Ramirez
Identity Wheel illustrates what are still missing in open source identity management landscape. Anyone is willing to lend a hand to fill up the pie ? Identity services slice is definitely heating up. How can we evenly distribute the open source developers to work on the less crowded pie slices ? For a start, you [...]
After the jump, read article by Michael Caton’s - “Virtual Directories Take Hold“.
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I love 37signal products. I use BackpackIt to organize my personal tasks. I use Basecamp to manage my projects and clients. Recently, 37signal introduced Highrise, a simple contact sharing web-app. You can forward your e-mail conversations to Highrise and it will know how to append the conversations to the right contact. This is a great [...]
LDAP Studio is by far the best open source LDAP client implementation available. You can download it here. Credits goes to Stefan Seelmann, Pierre Arnauld Marcelot (we call him ‘pam’), Christie Koppelt and all of ApacheDS committers. I applaud
The Good
Starting from version 8.1, PeopleSoft user’s credentials be validated against the directory; hence leveraging pre-existing authentication data in an LDAP directory service and achieve Single-Sign-On across multiple PeopleSoft
With NIS is being EOL’d by Sun, most organizations will want to migrate their NIS servers to LDAP-based directories. Organization who is still using Sun NIS will fail Sarbanes-Oxley audits. However, the Sun current migration process is fairly