Request for opinion - central admin user server LDAP+FreeRADIUS

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

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 at 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
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