Using (Free)IPA ID-Views with LDAP for your legacy servers

Having pain with user authentication on your old legacy Unix servers? Here comes the solution: ID-Views via LDAP. If you need to preserve UID/GID or other stuff like shell on some legacy servers but want to have the benefits of a centrally managed identity management, then ID-Views is the answer. Since legacy servers usually do not have SSSD on board, such as traditional Unix Systems, you can also use LDAP to authenticate such users. Use cases You have different users ….Read More

Oracle ditches OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris was dropped by Oracle As many people already suspected, Oracle will ditch OpenSolaris as announced here: OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express. The first Solaris 11 Express release is expected end of this year. If is has similar usage restrictions like the Oracle 10 Express database then it will be quite useless. OpenSolaris was a good thing for both, Sun and its customers. Customers had a continuous preview of upcoming features in new Solaris versions. Sun ….Read More