http://conklintechnology.com/site IT Architecture. Identity Management. Unix Administration Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en dn: uid=msmith,ou=people,o=root changetype:modify add: objectclass objectclass: posixaccount - add: uidnumber uidnumber: 1000 - add: gidnumber gidnumber: 100 - add: homedirectory homedirectory: /home/msmith - add: loginshell loginshell: /bin/bash Now that you've got your OpenDS cloud-based server up and running, it's time to start configuring your Unix and Linux servers and workstations to use LDAP for authentication. Before you get started, here's a few things to consider: The POSIX attributes ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2010/04/27/adding-posix-attributes-to-your-ldap-users/ So now that you've had a chance to get started with your new cloud-based LDAP server...  (you have fired it up, right?  If not, check out this post for more details on how you can have your own LDAP server running in 10 minutes or so!) Some of the most common ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2010/04/06/getting-started-with-your-new-ldap-server/ The newest, easiest way to get an LDAP server up and running is now here!  No more buying hardware, hoping it will provide enough capacity for your growing needs, no more configuring software and all the headaches caused by prerequisites for this package, or versions needed by that package.  In ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2010/03/22/opends-2-2-cloud-based-ldap/ According to this article, Acquia is planning to offer a hosted Drupal service in the next few months.  Drupal has always been my favorite CMS for things like intranet sites, mostly due to its strong taxonomy feature.  It's much easier to find content after it's been posted if the articles ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2010/03/18/new-hosted-drupal-option/ Conklin Technology Group is proud to announce a new cloud-based LDAP server, running in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), available soon! With this new product, you can easily have your own LDAP server up and running in a matter of minutes, all of the configuration has been completed already. Simply ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2010/03/16/hosted-ldap-server-announcemen/ Well, now that Oracle's purchase of Sun has been finalized, it raises some interesting questions about the future of Sun's products, especially in overlap areas, like Java application servers, Sun Directory, OpenSSO, etc. Thankfully, Oracle has posted several Webcasts with Sr. VP Hasan Rivzi, detailing many of the future roadmap decisions, ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2010/03/05/the-future-of-sun-directory-server/ Infoworld.com is reporting that Microsoft has announced a new technology that they're calling "Next Generation Active Directory".  It's a "clip-on" -- whatever that means -- that allows directory data to be stored in a SQL database and allows developers to query that data for complex relationships that would normally be ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2009/11/18/microsofts-next-generation-active-directory/ After my previous post, I've been trying to figure out some solutions to the scenario I presented (a dynamic email group with opt-in/opt-out capabilities). I got some good suggestions from Matt Flynn and will have a subsequent post with some commercial tools that provide end-user self-service for things like distribution ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2009/11/04/combining-dynamic-and-static-groups/ As I was searching around the Internet the other day for news about one of my favorite CMS packages (Drupal), I found this interesting project called Open Atrium, from a company called Development Seed. It looks like they've put a tremendous amount of effort into making an out-of-the-box Intranet solution, based ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2009/11/04/open-atrium/ While I'm sure UC San Diego will learn all sorts of valuable lessons from this situation, what it should teach everyone else is the importance of establishing proper approval chains for workflows (such as sending out acceptance letters), and a strong business case for some sort of distribution list management ... http://conklintechnology.com/site/2009/11/04/another-use-case-for-good-idm-workflows/