Yet Another IAM and Open Source Blog

A new nice contribution form Pierangelo Masarati about allowed child classes. It is really interesting because LDAP interfaces can now “know” what object classes can be used just above an entry. With the get effective rights, it would probably be sufficient to achieve a fully generic editor engine about rights and classes. The last missing element is about advanced data types (dates,  closed list of values, …).

Primary support has been added in InterLDAP authorization framework for GER. OpenLDAP support will be also contributed from the end of the year as the overlay already exists and just needs to be improved to take into account source ip/name and authentication level.

After some work with Jonathan, which is really motivated by his Portland journey and his participation to LdapCon 2009, we try to identify the next releases more precisely :

• 1.2 will include no more use of generators and will remove the systematic need of lsc-sample (most of the work will be around integration and documentation

• 1.3 will include a first daemon mode to support permanent synchronization, probably needing a full architecture review.

I hope we will be able to get a 1.2 release for the end of the year.

If you love the idea of using a structured project organization and build system but you find Maven 2 documentation awful, you will be very happy to know that there is a free Maven book called “Maven – the definitive guide” and also a french translation which has been started is almost completed. Maven rocks, just try it !

InterLDAP, the original project on which LINAGORA LinID IAM offer is based, has been refreshed :

• Update to Tapestry 5.1

• Updated and improved embedded directory integration (OpenDS 2.0)

The coutinuous integration result can be seen at the following location: http://wui.demo.interldap.org.

A lot of work remains but the project has been joined by Clement Oudot, one of the main developer of LemonLDAP::NG and a great graphist, and Raphaël Ouazana which has developped and contributed to different OSS projects.

After great time last Wednesday at the RMLL 2009 in Nantes (France), I enjoy coding some days to fix primaries bugs and to improve the OpenLDAP console. It now supports some really usable features like backends and overlays management.

You are invited to try it by downloading a ready to use Jetty packaged version at the following location : linid-dm-0.3-SNAPSHOT-embedded.zip

To use it, you only need a very simple OpenLDAP 2.4.16+ configuration including a cn=config backend with a rootdn and rootpw set to authenticate against it inside the web interface :  OpenLDAP Configuration

I’m pleased to announce the first downloadable version of LinID Directory Manager. You can download it at the following location: LinID Forge

And now the first screenshot :

As presented some days ago, LinID DM has now a selectable directories properties component and primary support for overlays (only two at this time)

New demo URL : http://build.lsc-project.org:8080/linid-dm/

This monday and thuesday, my team and I have the pleasure to work with Howard Chu about directories and IAM projects.

After an very interesting afternoon, we had a small coding moment arround an “get effective rights” overlay

At the end of the day, twenty people from different companies (final user, IT services companies, independant, …) joined us to listen to Howard talking about OpenLDAP 2.4 Highlights. After a short introduction with a violin (video shortly available , Howard mainly focused on replication and performances enhancements to convince, if it was necessary, that OpenLDAP really outperforms any other directories (open source or proprietary) and is the only directory to support more than 2 billions entries !

In the next morning (24/03), we focused on the business part : consulting, support, development around OpenLDAP but also on our offer LinID. Apart form general questions, we also talk about our projects like Ldap Synchronization Connector and LinID Directory Manager (OpenLDAP console)

Exchanging with Howard was very interesting because of the experience and expertise about all LDAP related stuff and the knowledge of the Open Source world, but also about performance, optimizations. I simply loved these two days and event if it is sometimes difficult to be involved in all the aspects of projects (commercial, marketing, development and support), I can now remember why I love this Open Source spirit so much.

Thanks Howard,

After hiring highly technical guys, LINAGORA is also recruiting a very high level business and managing profile

http://www.decideurstv.com/index.php/linagora-francois-mazon/video/160320091187