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.

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.

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,

I’m very pleased to announce two OpenLDAP events in France with H. Chu, OpenLDAP chief architect :

• the 23th march starting at 6PM : you are welcome at an after-work event to speak about new features of the latest 2.4 OpenLDAP version
• the 24th march starting at 9AM: a business oriented event to cover support, maintenance and industrialised OpenLDAP directory and related tools

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Professional seminar

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.

Let’s find some links about open source software assurance, my work at Linagora :

• Indexel
• 01informatique

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.

How to dream about a better weekend for every one using a free desktop :

• OpenOffice.org will be released under LGPL v3
• MS Office will be compatible with ODF !

You may be dreaming or just think that you are Sunday, the 9th march 2008 :), even if the Vienna city has decided to introduce a budget line for the 2010 for Microsoft Vista, considering the Wienux distribution, based on Debian, may failed.