December 19, 2006

OpenDS Enterprise Directory Services

Trey DrakeAssetWorld 2007

Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 2007

December 19, 2006

• What• Why• How

Directory Services & OpenDS

December 19, 2006

• Where are my users?• Weak passwords?• Users come and go• I want single sign on!• Who owns enterprise identity?• Sarbanes?! - who, what, when, where?

Look Familiar?

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What

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• Stores & organizes users & network resources

• Secure• High speed• HA• Replication• Wired into apps, os, email, routers• Upstack services

Directory Service

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Meta Directory – Authoritative DS

HR

FMAX

OpenDS

Meta

schedule

?

salary

user id

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Virtual Directory Service

HR

FMAX

OpenDS

Virtual

Personname

schedulesalary

salary

uid

schedule

?

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Proxy Directory ServiceA-M

N-Z

inactive

? sn=drake

? employee id=1001

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• Standards, Standards, Standards• Started ~ 1993• IETF (OpenLDAP, Sun, Novell, others)• OpenDS, OpenLDAP, Novell, AD, OID• Network protocol• Distributed

LDAP

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• Complete directory service• Community effort • FOSS - CDDL• Bootstrapped by Sun• Progress update since 11/06 - remember?

OpenDS

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• Rich password policy• All platforms• Easy install• Manageable• Extend everywhere• Embedded option• Replication

Fast Facts – Here Today

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• No console• No commercial support*• No virtual• No proxy• No transactions*

Fast Facts – What's Missing

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On to the why...

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• Where are my users?• Weak passwords?• Users come and go• I want single sign on!• Who owns enterprise identity?• Sarbanes?!• Who, what, when, where?

Look Familiar (Again)?

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• De-fragment users and policies• Secure, global view• Simple, well known• Extensible, roll your own “person”• Preferred repository for provisioning

systems• Pillar for single sign on

Data Consolidation

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Where are your users & resources?

FMAX

PeoplesoftActive Directory

Home grown

Linux/etc/passwd

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Where they should be

o=any.edu

ou=contractorsou=facultyou=students

ou=staffou=devicesFMAX

PSFT

NIS

SSO

Foo

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• Simple idea, difficult to implement• Spec outlines the solution

– strength– # tries– login windows– etc

• OpenDS implements the solution• Applications and controls

Password Policy

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Password PolicyOpenDS Policy PluginLDAP Client

Deny with error code/message

Fetch appropriate policy

Evaluate policy

Authenticate with policy

Success

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• Onboarding - establishing access• Offboarding - terminating access

– Confident?

• Re-establishing access

User Provisioning

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User Silos

Portal HRFMAX

App DBOracle LDAP

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• Centralized user store infinitely easier• Even so

– Barren FOSS landscape - Identyx – Commercial Sun IDM– Roll your own

User provisioning

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• Centralize access management• Seamless to end user • Manageable enterprise SSO requires a

consolidated view• Most SSO rely on LDAP• Requires high performance repository• Single SSO, single repository• OpenSSO & OpenDS

Single Sign On

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• Who owns enterprise identity?• Centralized and federated directories• Apps requiring directory writes• Isolating directories• Crossing regulatory boundaries• OpenDS replication

Identity Ownership

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Identity Ownership

Portal, Blogs

FMAX

Linux, Windows

Enterpriselocal

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Replication• Assured• Fractional

HIPPA filter

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• Secure channels• Centralized users and policy• Password policy• AAA - Auditing

Sarbanes

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• Secure LDAP – Supports StartTLS and SSL

• Centralized users and policy• Extensive password policy via controls• Full, high performance activity logging

OpenDS & Sarbanes

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• Active Directory• Sun DSEE• Oracle • OpenLDAP• Novell• Fedora• Novell• Apache

Other Directories

December 19, 2006

• Single Directory Services Stack• Standards• FOSS• Fast• Extensible• Feature rich• FOSS

OpenDS

December 19, 2006

• http://www.opends.org• http://treydrake.wordpress.com• treydrake@yahoo.com

Resources

December 19, 2006

• Install• Addressbook• Glassfish and OpenDS

Demo!