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Right on the heels of SAP’s announcement of its purchase of virtual directory vendor MaXware, which we covered in last week’s newsletter, comes news of new releases in virtual directory technology on two fronts.
Oracle (whose 2006 acquisition of OctetString may have been the nudge that SAP needed in identity management) announced last week that it had integrated Enterprise User Security (EUS), a feature of Oracle Database 10g, with Oracle Virtual Directory. The move enables organizations to centrally manage database user identities through their existing corporate directories such as Oracle Internet Directory, Microsoft Active Directory and Sun Java System Directory Server.
Delivering on the promises made at the time of the OctetString acquisition, the database leader can now offer its customers (at least, the Oracle 10g customers) the ability to use EUS to virtually provision database user accounts, assign database roles, centrally manage user authentication and authorization, and enable self-service features such as password resets in existing corporate directories. That’s just not feasible without a robust virtual directory engine.
Not to be overshadowed the open source virtual directory effort, the Penrose Project, has just posted a new release – version 1.2. This addresses a real need for older Unix installations by providing a better way to modernize a Network Information Service installation.
As Penrose lead Jim Yang explains: “The usual approach to NIS is: 1. Migrate everything from NIS to LDAP; then 2. Attach NIS Gateway to the LDAP.” The problem with that is what Penrose calls “the Big Bang” – migrating all of your NIS in one fell swoop.
The Penrose approach can be called a “reverse gateway,” providing an LDAP view of NIS entries in real-time while allowing the administration of existing entries through the NIS interface until you’ve finished the migration. If any problems occur, you can always roll back and start again without disrupting the network. In addition to support for ApacheDS and OpenLDAP, Penrose integrated OpenDS and FedoraDS support. Go here http://penrose.safehaus.org/penrose/news.html for all the details and the download pointers.
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