Request for opinion - central admin user server LDAP+FreeRADIUS
Hello all I'm assigned with a project to make a central admin user database for all kind of servers / devices you can imagine (routers, switches, firewalls, linux servers, windows servers, databases, etc.). The point is that when a news employee arrives you just make him a user in this database, maybe check which type of devices he can and all the devices are configured to authenticate users against this db. We have over 200 switches alone in our company so making user accounts in every single one of them and when this dude leaves to disable all of them is huge (or impossible) work. So I thought a linux server LDAP+FreeRADIUS for authentication sounds quick, easy and good solution, or not? There is no problem with servers Linux and Windows servers can authenticate against radius. Most popular DB -s can do this also (Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL). I don't know about Cisco switches and roters but as far I found in google there should be no problems the same goes for juniper devices. So what do you think? Or maybe you know a free software solution for this kind of problem already? Sun identity management is one that i checked out but it seems too bloated and complicated. So what are your thoughts? -- Andres Kaaber
Look at TACACS/TACACS+. Most devices support this. You will need a TACACS server which authenticates off a RADIUS server. For others is upto the software to implement a TACACS or direct RADIUS. Andres Kaaber wrote:
Hello all I'm assigned with a project to make a central admin user database for all kind of servers / devices you can imagine (routers, switches, firewalls, linux servers, windows servers, databases, etc.). The point is that when a news employee arrives you just make him a user in this database, maybe check which type of devices he can and all the devices are configured to authenticate users against this db. We have over 200 switches alone in our company so making user accounts in every single one of them and when this dude leaves to disable all of them is huge (or impossible) work. So I thought a linux server LDAP+FreeRADIUS for authentication sounds quick, easy and good solution, or not? There is no problem with servers Linux and Windows servers can authenticate against radius. Most popular DB -s can do this also (Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL). I don't know about Cisco switches and roters but as far I found in google there should be no problems the same goes for juniper devices. So what do you think? Or maybe you know a free software solution for this kind of problem already? Sun identity management is one that i checked out but it seems too bloated and complicated. So what are your thoughts?
Hi,
Look at TACACS/TACACS+. Most devices support this. You will need a TACACS server which authenticates off a RADIUS server.
For others is upto the software to implement a TACACS or direct RADIUS.
Most gear supports direct RADIUS just fine. TACACS+ is a proprietary protocol and personally I have had the impression that it's dying a long death. The *only* merit it has is on Cisco devices (Cisco is the inventor of TACACS+): you can configure a feature called "command authorisation" in Cisco gear, so that the device checks back every single command a user enters in an interactive session. It could also be done with a RADIUS attribute, but Cisco decided to explicitly un-implement this single one feature to make TACACS+ superior over RADIUS for that one feature. If you never heard nor care about Cisco's command authorization, RADIUS should be the way to go. Stefan Winter
Andres Kaaber wrote:
Hello all I'm assigned with a project to make a central admin user database for all kind of servers / devices you can imagine (routers, switches, firewalls, linux servers, windows servers, databases, etc.). The point is that when a news employee arrives you just make him a user in this database, maybe check which type of devices he can and all the devices are configured to authenticate users against this db. We have over 200 switches alone in our company so making user accounts in every single one of them and when this dude leaves to disable all of them is huge (or impossible) work. So I thought a linux server LDAP+FreeRADIUS for authentication sounds quick, easy and good solution, or not? There is no problem with servers Linux and Windows servers can authenticate against radius. Most popular DB -s can do this also (Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL). I don't know about Cisco switches and roters but as far I found in google there should be no problems the same goes for juniper devices. So what do you think? Or maybe you know a free software solution for this kind of problem already? Sun identity management is one that i checked out but it seems too bloated and complicated. So what are your thoughts?
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Have checked out Penrose from Safehaus. Otherwise if you don't want a FOSS solution then Novell IDM is the most complete end-to-end IDM solution on the market IMHO. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Andres Kaaber <andres.kaaber@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello all I'm assigned with a project to make a central admin user database for all kind of servers / devices you can imagine (routers, switches, firewalls, linux servers, windows servers, databases, etc.). The point is that when a news employee arrives you just make him a user in this database, maybe check which type of devices he can and all the devices are configured to authenticate users against this db. We have over 200 switches alone in our company so making user accounts in every single one of them and when this dude leaves to disable all of them is huge (or impossible) work. So I thought a linux server LDAP+FreeRADIUS for authentication sounds quick, easy and good solution, or not? There is no problem with servers Linux and Windows servers can authenticate against radius. Most popular DB -s can do this also (Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL). I don't know about Cisco switches and roters but as far I found in google there should be no problems the same goes for juniper devices. So what do you think? Or maybe you know a free software solution for this kind of problem already? Sun identity management is one that i checked out but it seems too bloated and complicated. So what are your thoughts? -- Andres Kaaber - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
On 08/09/2009 08:05 AM, Andres Kaaber wrote:
Hello all I'm assigned with a project to make a central admin user database for all kind of servers / devices you can imagine (routers, switches, firewalls, linux servers, windows servers, databases, etc.). The point is that when a news employee arrives you just make him a user in this database, maybe check which type of devices he can and all the devices are configured to authenticate users against this db. We have over 200 switches alone in our company so making user accounts in every single one of them and when this dude leaves to disable all of them is huge (or impossible) work. So I thought a linux server LDAP+FreeRADIUS for authentication sounds quick, easy and good solution, or not? There is no problem with servers Linux and Windows servers can authenticate against radius. Most popular DB -s can do this also (Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL). I don't know about Cisco switches and roters but as far I found in google there should be no problems the same goes for juniper devices. So what do you think? Or maybe you know a free software solution for this kind of problem already? Sun identity management is one that i checked out but it seems too bloated and complicated. So what are your thoughts?
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