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- December 9, 2008: Strong Authentication
- April 27, 2008: ID Card Stuff
- March 26, 2008: OSS IDM System - Some Thoughts
- October 9, 2007: Role Based Access in the Enterprise
- September 11, 2007: Open Source IDM Solutions
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- August 16, 2007: OpenSuse 10.2 Network install in 6 easy steps.
- May 29, 2007: So, I posted my Resume
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- May 11, 2007: Started PAM module list
Where’s my open source enterprise IDM solution?
I’ve been doing IDM for about 6 years now. With everyone I speak with, IDM pretty much gets talked about in 2 ways.
1 - SSO/Federation solutions. Geared mostly around federation and SSO Access/Authorization. (there are actually a plethora of Opensource projects that can help tackle these problems).
2 - IDM in terms of user provisioning and profiling in the enterprise to enterprise type software. Such as Lotus Notes, Active Directory, eDirectory or even things like RACF on zOS.
For number 1, I’ve found all sorts of stuff in that space.. heres a couple of links for it…
http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/single-sign-on-in-java/view
http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?featureid=1681
For number 2 though, I have yet to find anything interesting that gets my attention. Which got me wondering why?
Im well versed in Novell’s Identity Manager product as well as have done *some* work with Sun’s product. There are also a few other companies out there that claim to do some form of IDM in this space, including Microsoft, IBM/Tivoli, CA, and then there are some smaller players.
Most of these products base everything on some sort of a directory technology. Be it eDirectory for Novell, AD for microsoft, or whatever the directory of the day is… they all have some form of directory back-end that serves as a meta-directory. In the opensource world, we have openldap which is certainly a reputable and well proven directory service. Seems to me, that it would be a relativley interesting idea to attempt to build an enterprise class IDM solution that works in conjunction with open-ldap as the back end.
I realize, I’m sort of rambling on here, so if anyone knows of any efforts going on in this space, post a comment.
I’m actually considering attempting this myself. If there is any interest, let me know!
UPDATE: from one of the little handy “Whos linking to you links” Someone pointed this out… http://www.diamelle.com/ . They appear to be working on this exact problem.. ill check it out and let everyone know.