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Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0

Posted by timothy on from the crisis-identify dept.

scubacuda points to this article at The Register, about "what is believed to be the industry's first identity server based on Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network identity (date sheet here). Other reports of Sun's release: eWeek, Information Week, Computer World, & Y!"

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  1. Re:supported by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    And it runs on linux.

    from the article:
    Platforms supported are Solaris 8, 9 and x86, Red Hat 7.2 (6.1 only) and Windows 2000

    So, I hope its clear to everyone that it runs on Red Hat 7.2 (6.1 only) too!

  2. Re:supported by abdulwahid · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, I hope its clear to everyone that it runs on Red Hat 7.2 (6.1 only) too!

    I think you'll find they mean that only version 6.1 of the Identity server will be supported under Redhat Linux 7.2 and this version 6.0 doesn't actually support Linux at all.

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  3. Re:So Wait? by fuzzbrain · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a developing open source implementation of distributed login here. There was a good article by Doc Searls about PingID and the Liberty Alliance in the December 2002 edition of Linux Journal.

  4. This is precisely the problem that is avoided by Mindbridge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Notice that Sun and the Liberty Aliance do NOT offer a centralized identity repository a la Passport. This is a distributed solution -- as a provider (internet store, etc.) you install an authentication server and decide yourself what other providers you can trust, so that if a user is logged in their site, he can be considered logged in yours as well (put simply).

    The only requirement is that the server implements the Liberty Aliance protocol standards. I _think_ one can make an open source server that implements those standards as well.

  5. Re:Sun ONE by hummer · · Score: 2, Informative

    The SunONE identity server is a fork of Sun/iPlanet/netscape's directory (LDAP) server product. Identity server used to be called SunONE directory server 5.1, Access Management edition. Hence, the latest version number is 6.

    hummer