Tuesday Oct 13, 2009

The goal of this document is to enable the reader to be able to 
protect their Java EE application deployed on Glass Fish Enterprise
Server 2.1 Cluster using OpenSSO and Policy Agents 3.0. This document
is verified and validated with OpenSSO policy agents 3.0 and GFv2.1 EE
cluster as described in the next section. Read More on http://indirat.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/policyagentsongfcluster/

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Thursday Aug 13, 2009

Now it is so simple to use OpenSSO as an Identity Provider to SSO
with Salesforce.com applications using the SAMLv2 protocol. Out of the
box OpenSSO supports an easy to use work flow feature that enable the
customers to integrate salesforce.com applications to their existing
authentication infrastructure. More you can read it from my new url http://indirat.wordpress.com/salesforce/

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It is time for me to move to wordpress.com. I like the editor and it is so easy to upload an image/file. You can find my new posts at 


http://indirat.wordpress.com/ 

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Friday Jun 26, 2009

You can use ssoadm CLI to automate the OpenSSO service configuration. 
In the next few blog entries I am planning to give some examples on how
to perform certain configuration changes using the ssoadm CLI. In this
article I am going to show you how to create an Authentication Chain.
You should have configured the CLI  as a prerequisite.

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Sunday Jun 14, 2009


The postings I made in the past seem to be very useful to the OpenSSO community I conclude this based on the private mails that I have received periodically. This time I am venturing out to see how the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) could be massaged to store the OpenSSO User and Group information. I dont  claim to be an expert in Oracle Directory Server nevertheless what I provide here is a validated procedure that is expected to work.  Though I am part of the  OpenSSO enterprise product team,  in no means I imply this particular identity store is  a official part of the supported OpenSSO release.  


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Monday Jun 08, 2009

How To Determine whether the given LDAP server support persistent search


the persistent search draft version control 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.3 is implemented by many of the LDAP servers including


  • IBM(Tivoli Directory)

  • Novell(eDirectory)

  • Sun(DSEE)

  • OpenDS(OpenDS Directory Server 1.0.0-build007)

  • Fedora-Directory/1.0.4 B2006.312.1539

perform the following search for the persistent search control 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.3
ldapsearch -p 389 -h ds_host -s base -b '' "objectclass=*" supportedControl | grep 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.3


Active Directory


AD implements in a different form using the LDAP control 1.2.840.113556.1.4.528


ldapsearch  -h AD_HOST -p PORT  -D"CN=Administrator,CN=Users,dc=test,dc=com" -w secret12 -s base  -b '' "objectclass=*" supportedControl | grep 1.2.840.113556.1.4.528



Thursday Apr 09, 2009

This blog is an addendum  to my earlier entry on the password reset application.
This article specifically addresses the steps involved in configuring
the OpenDS as the user store for the OpenSSO and enabling password
reset that works  in association with OpenDS Password policy. 



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Monday Mar 09, 2009


I have been receiving email constantly about questions that regard to configuring OpenDS as user store for OpenSSO. In  my earlier post I have detailed a hack to configure OpenDS with OpenSSO.  Starting from Express build 7 of OpenSSO , OpenDS is officially supported as the user store with some known limitation regards to support for OpenDS password policies. These shortcomings will be resolved in the forth coming Express builds.  

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Monday Nov 10, 2008

It is easy to configure  an already existing  opensso system to run in 'debug' mode, but what if the system is being configured and you want to view the debug traces of opensso? There is a way to do that in OpenSSO. 

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Friday Nov 07, 2008

This document specifically addresses the workaround for the
opensso issue 4094, yet this document can be used to configure the
Opensso Server against an existing Sun Java System Directory Server
Enterprise Edition. (DSEE)

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Thursday Nov 06, 2008

Out of the box Access Manager Repository Plug-in datastore plugin cannot be created in the OpenSSO server, This is not a bug rather it is intentional to configure it manually depending up on the customer requirement.   Access Manager Repository Plug-in data store may be applicable in the co-existence and/or upgrade scenarios with its predecessors like Sun Java System Access Manager.  For the fresh deployments customers should be using the Identity Repository Datastore Plugins. 

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Problem:



While configuring the OpenSSO(build 6) server against Sun Directory Server to store the configuration data, if you have selected  different passwords for the 'amadmin' user and for the DSEE Bind DN user(for eg: cn=directory manager), then  the command line tool 'ssoadm' will fail on certain circumstances.
This issue does not happen when OpenSSO server is configured with default configuration store. There are two workarounds to resolve the issue.








  • Create cn=dsameuser entry under the configuration directory server





  • Update the serverconfig.xml in the configuration store







later option is recommended to the production customers

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Tuesday Jul 01, 2008


People who love programming in the interpretive languages would love the OpenSSO  REST based Identity Services, OpenSSO offers decently powerful REST interfaces to manipulate the idenity information stored in any supported OpenSSO identity store. I strongly encourage to read  Aravindan Ranganathan's  article on Identity Servic


This document is generated based on the  article



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Saturday Apr 12, 2008

OpenSSO support most of the commercially available LDAP servers as
identity store. In this blog entry I am goign to show you how to create
these data store from famadm CLI. IT is easy and less error prone and
repeatable.

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Friday Feb 08, 2008

The simplest way to configure the OpenSSO system is to use the browser just to fill four test fields, it is that simple. However there are scenarios where you want to script the configuration on multiple machines or when you can not reach out to a browser, let us say all you've got is a dumb terminal access. In these scenarios what you do?

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