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Posted 12 years ago by Gabor Puhalla
SSO authentication introduces some technical challenges besides providing obvious benefits. Imagine for example that you need to assign different types or levels of authentication to different resources or different actions within a domain. E.g. you allow users to view information, if they successfully authenticate using user name and password, while you may require them to […]
Posted 12 years ago by Nemanja Lukic
A Realm is an OpenAM concept and a feature which is used to group and organise the information and configuration parameters. OpenAM has a top level realm which contains all other, user-defined, realms. We will try here to demonstrate the realm functionality on a simple but practical scenario where realms will be used to separate […]
Posted 12 years ago by Nemanja Lukic
Although my use case for certificate based authentication is pretty basic, the existing documentation for Access Manager/OpenSSO/OpenAM is somewhat scarce and requires gathering information from various, often unrelated sources. For that reason, I have summarised the process in this article.
Posted 12 years ago by skatuscak
This blog is about automation of OpenAM architecture installation and configuration. As I recently automated architecture from my previous article [1] (simplified without using SSL), I would like to say something about issues I met.
Posted 12 years ago by skatuscak
I prepared one more article about OpenAM, now it is about OpenAM Web Policy Agent. This article is an example how to use OpenAM to protect resources on a Web Server.
Posted 12 years ago by skatuscak
In my previous articles [1] and [2] I explained how to install simple OpenAM architecture. Now I wrote one more article related to this architecture. This article provides detailed steps how to do an upgrade of this architecture from OpenAM 9.0 to OpenAM 9.5.4.
Posted 12 years ago by skatuscak
In my previous article “How to deploy OpenAM with DAUI” I wrote down steps how to install complete architecture where DAUI is configured with OpenAM. To keep it simple, I used only plain non-encrypted communication between individual components, however in the real world, many deployments require some more security and encrypted cryptography is a basic requirement. […]
Posted 12 years ago by skatuscak
Internet is full of tutorials and steps how to install and configure individual tools, but sometimes there are required steps to connect these tutorials together. Sure, there are some deployment guides for complex architectures, but they are typically very complex. The goal of this article is to provide complete, but simple steps how to install […]
Posted 13 years ago by Nemanja Lukic
We have previously written about the plugin development for OpenDJ based on the example-plugin.zip which comes with the binary distribution. However, as OpenDJ is evolving and slowly migrating to Maven, on the initiative of the ForgeRock team we have come up with the Maven archetype to make the plugin development easier and more developer friendly.
Posted 13 years ago by Nemanja Lukic
Sun Microsystems merger with Oracle has created a gap not only in the identity market but also in the continuity of the Sun identity offerings. Once a market leader (and for the moment being still is), Sun Java System Directory Server (also known under many other marketing names such as SunONE and iPlanet) has uncertain […]