Yet Another IAM and Open Source Blog

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.

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

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,

Hi all,

You are looking for an OpenLDAP console / administration tool ? let’s look at http://build.lsc-project.org:8080/openldap-webconsole/config/homepage

You must use login ‘ Administrator’ and password ’secret’. You are welcomed to notice any bug or feature request

Regards,

After meeting Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, last week, I have the chance to meet today :

• Claude Durant, Osiatis strategic VP, founder of IstmF, which take time to present ITIL v2 and v3,
• Paul Trevithick with the FederID and the Linagora security teams : discovering Higgins project, presenting our IAM projects (InterLDAP, FederID, LSC, SyncID)

And tomorrow, Ismael Ghalimi will teach how to improve time management to the Linagora management team in which I’m involved.

This first major version of the Ldap Synchronization Connector which includes a fully functional version.

You will find a simple and ready to use interface to build your directory connector : you can take data from databases, CSV files and also other directories.

It is now very simple to generate new tasks, starting from the directory object classes. You only need to know the database schema in order to write the SQL requests.

The full changelog is available here.

Take a look and you are pleased to send us feedback and feature requirements if something is missing for your needs.

For the 2008 edition of the Google Summer of Code, Clément, one of my colleagues, and I are going to share a subject about LSC and InterLDAP.

For LSC, I think about JPA compatibility. For InterLDAP, maybe formalizing Ldap Query Language could be a good subject.

Why not dreaming about a true open source meta directory project ? So do it on syncid.org !

First of all, the first work is to specify functional and technical requirements. Only after that, we may try to write some code. Why ? Because, I have never implement such a engine because nothing is available in the open source world. So I need some help to know about the commercial products, functionalities and technical implementations.

Ldap Simple Connector (LSC) version 0.9.7 is out ! Let’s find the next LDAP connector generation : http://interldap.objectweb.org/lsc/.

Trying to put some data from a relation database or from a directory to a directory ? Look at this new project : you will find the lsc-sample soon on the Objectweb forge and the video to see how to create a sample connector.