Planning and designing your Identity & Access Management architecture can be pretty complex, depending on your use cases. Even when using a set of tools like ForgeRock’s Open Identity Suite … which is pretty easy to install. You need to understand which products are right for your use cases and requirements. Should you use OpenAM […]
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Overview A very common use case, when implementing ForgeRock’s OpenAM, is forcing a user to reset their password the next time they login. Seems easy enough right? … next time a particular user authenticates in they should be prompted to change their password before continuing on to the resource (web page) that they had originally […]
Use Case: In an enterprise setup you would likely want to know when a user has locked their account (e.g. too many failed password attempts) and more than likely want to distribute that information to other systems in your environment. One solution would be to enable OpenIDM to monitor the user identity repository for changes […]
On average I spend a lot of time opening documents online. One set of documents I refer to frequently is the ForgeRock Technical Document set. While it’s not overly arduous to open a browser tab and click on a bookmark or type in the URL, I have wanted to find a better shortcut for this task. […]
I use the command line a lot when interfacing with OpenDJ. One of the issues with this is that I often run into an issue with the BindDN user’s password has an “!” (bang) in it. As this is a special character in Unix/Linux command line, it will typically cause unexpected results. With ldapsearch you […]
OpenIDM 3.1 comes with several password policies enabled by default. There are often times when you will need to implement additional policies or even modify or extend existing policies. This is a quick guide that will walk you through the basics of implementing your own password policies. Let’s talk a little bit about what’s there […]
A customer needed to ensure that passwords contained at least one ‘special character’ when a new password was created in OpenIDM. I borrowed heavily from the provided samples but had to figure out the correct regexp formatting. Here is the function that I used to implement this: function atLeastXSpecialChars(fullObject, value, params, property) { isRequired = […]
Ubuntu is a very popular operating system (OS) in the cloud space but the Federal government has been reluctant to adopt Ubuntu, preferring to stick with Redhat as their Linux flavor of choice. As the Government moves toward the cloud it makes sense to me that Ubuntu would start to see some more play time. One […]
Here is a quick note to help you correctly configure the Scripted SQL Connector when working with different schemas in an Oracle Database. By default the connector assumes that you are querying the default schema, which can be problematic if you happen to be using a different schema (user). The default connector file will look something like […]