Part 4 of 4 – SSSD Authentication: Known Problems and Troubleshooting Tips
Introduction In Part 3 of 4 – SSSD Linux Authentication: Implementation Step-by-Step Guideline I covered all the necessary step-by-step details on deploying SSSD, but nothing ever seems to go perfect...
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Introduction In Part 2 of 4 – SSSD Linux Authentication: LDAP Identity Store Requirements all the aspects of the LDAP Identity Store requirements were covered. And before that in article Part 1 of 2 –...
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Introduction In Part 1 of 4 – SSSD Linux Authentication: Introduction and Architecture I covered an introduction on SSSD and an architecture overview with details on the flow of how it all works. In...
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Introduction This article provides the details needed to solve a real use case used to allow a user to authenticate to an Oracle Public Cloud Linux server in SaaS using a single or multiple LDAP...
View ArticleWebLogic Domain Models for Installing the Oracle Identity Management Suite –...
A couple days ago I wrote what I consider to be an important post about whether different Oracle middleware packages (or bundles) should be installed together in a single domain or installed in...
View ArticleBehavior of the OVD “Entry” class
As part of a demo I'm doing this week I wrote a custom OVD adapter and (for various reasons) included my own logic to cache the results between LDAP calls. Along the way I discovered behavior that...
View ArticleImportant Topic: WebLogic Domain Models for Installing the Oracle Identity...
As most of you know, the current 11g version of the Oracle Identity Management Suite runs on top of a tech stack based on WebLogic Server. In essence, when you install any package from the 11g Identity...
View ArticleTell what patches are installed in your Oracle IAM 11g deployments using OPatch
People often want to know how they can tell what versions (including patches) of software they are running in their different environments. Fortunately, there is a simple standard way to get this...
View ArticleQuick tip: OVD – Providing namespace translation for DN attributes
Breaking off the ADF/OPSS series…OVD (Oracle Virtual Directory) guru Mark Wilcox gave me this really helpful tip that it’s worth sharing. It can save you folks quite a bit of headache.Scenario: you...
View ArticleOID password policies and account lockouts
The other day I blogged about database 11g's default password policies and how to disable them for your test environment. Today my passwords for OID expired and I thought I'd pass along the same...
View ArticleConfiguring Spaces to authenticate with Active Directory
WebCenter Spaces 11g was released on July 1, 2009. It is a collaboration platform, built on top of Oracle WebCenter 11g. I recently went through the process of setting it up for a client, and...
View ArticleConfiguring UCM to use Active Directory with Apache
Today, I wanted to configure Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) 10gR3 to allow authentication via Active Directory. I am running UCM through an Apache web server. Everything is running on...
View ArticleIntegrating SOA Suite with Oracle Internet Directory
My colleague Srini wrote an article on integrating SOA Suite with Oracle Internet Directory, which is available at http://redshift-au.blogspot.com/2009/05/soa-oid-integration.html
View ArticleIdentity and Cloud Security A-Team at Oracle Open World
I just wanted to let everyone know that Kiran and I will be presenting with our good friend John Griffith from Regions Bank at Oracle Open World next week. Our session is Oracle Identity Management...
View ArticleOracle Unified Directory 11gR2PS3 Very Large Static Groups
This post is about OUD and extremely large static groups where membership numbers exceed hundreds of thousands or even millions; yes I said millions. I have been using Directory Services for over 15...
View ArticleBPM Workspace Login with libOVD and LDAP, Part 1: Configuration and Startup
Intruduction Some of Oracle BPM 11g customers have reported performance issues when trying to login to BPM Workspace with an external LDAP as an identity store. While each customer could have a...
View ArticleWorking with Oracle Unified Directory 11gR2 Transformation Framework
If you have been using Oracle’s Identity Management software for at least the last few years you will probably be familiar or at least heard of OVD (Oracle Virtual Directory), which was original...
View ArticleImprove Oracle Unified Directory 11gR2 Search Performance with Index Entry Limit
Introduction I am always looking for great tips that give big values; this one is no exception. This article is to help you understand how to tweak the index called “Index Entry Limit” to reap some...
View ArticleMass Reset Password-part1 OID
Introduction One of the great features that customers need to be aware of and it could be used, as post-process, on many different situations such as: P2T, T2P and clone is the ability to reset...
View ArticleOID password policies and account lockouts
The other day I blogged about database 11g’s default password policies and how to disable them for your test environment. Today my passwords for OID expired and I thought I’d pass along the same...
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