Ultimately, the chaos is breeding a whole new niche in Identity as a Service (IdaaS) that’s being tightly contested by vendors like Okta and Identropy and others like Centrifiy and Symplified. It’s an exploding market that Gartner says will make up a quarter of all new IAM sales by the end of 2014 and 40 percent by 2015,
via When Active Directory And LDAP Aren’t Enough – Dark Reading.
Not another x as a service acronym. IAM=Identity and Access Management
“It used to be that because everything was behind the firewall, they could architect IAM with LDAP authentication and NTLM. But now they’re got the business line going out and driving so much via SaaS.”
via Is Identity The New Perimeter? – Dark Reading.
SaaS=Software as a Service
The MigrationTools are a set of Perl scripts for migrating users, groups, aliases, hosts, netgroups, networks, protocols, RPCs, and services from existing nameservices (flat files, NIS, and NetInfo) to LDAP.
via MigrationTools.
This howto will show you howto store your users in LDAP and authenticate some of the services against it. I will not show howto install particular packages, as it is distribution/system dependant. I will focus on “pure” configuration of all componenets needed to have LDAP authentication/storage of users. The howto assumes somehow, that you are migrating from a regular passwd/shadow authentication, but it is also suitable for people who do it from scratch.
LDAP Authentication In Linux | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.