A quick demo of OpenAM’s Token Translation Service According to Wikipedia: In a typical usage scenario, a client requests access to a secure software application, often called a relying party. Instead of the application authenticating the client, the client is redirected to an STS. The STS authenticates the client and issues a security token. Finally, …
ok guys … ForgeRock released updates across the board today: Access Management – AM 13 Identity Management – IDM 4 Directory Services – DJ 3 Identity Gateway – IG 4 I have only had a chance to go through the OpenAM release notes … and this is a big release for OpenAM. Clearly a ton …
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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 …
OpenAM: Forcing users to reset password on next login. Read More »
Implementing the “Resetting Forgotten Passwords” functionality as described in the OpenAM Developer’s Guide requires some additional custom code. It’s pretty straight forward to implement this functionality and can be done in 4 steps (per the Developer’s Guide): Configure the Email Service Perform an HTTP Post with the user’s id OpenAM looks up email address (based on …
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A client of mine has asked me to assist them in finding a full-time Senior OpenAM Engineer. They are a startup, based in Northern, Virginia. They are working on some pretty cool initiatives with OAUTH2 and SAML and need an experienced engineer to lead this effort. If you are interested in this please feel free …
I am offering an introductory special to ForgeRock’s Identity (I3) Stack. I am calling this the “Sequester Special”. The Federales are cutting back budgets and furloughing the Air Traffic controllers (cough … why not the TSA agents at the airport instead) but this is your chance to capitalize on that. So what’s this all about? You get …
I am wrapping a crazy busy week. Probably one of my most technically in-depth week in a really long time. So what kept me busy? Deep-diving into OpenAM’s Entitlement’s engine, learning about it’s REST interfaces and how to extend OpenAM to leverage custom service types. I’ll explain later since I know your thinking, “Tumy … …
Extending OpenAM Policy Service to support additional actions Read More »
In response to a post that I had written before on how to install OpenDJ and OpenAM I had someone remind me that I never came back and wrote the follow on post (which I had promised to do). They posted the question to my other blog site (which I have since migrated over to this site). …
I have been installing the ForgeRock stack on Ubuntu a lot lately. One of the things that I noticed is that when configuring OpenAM and OpenDJ for automatic startup you need to let OpenDJ finish starting up before starting Tomcat (OpenAM) … otherwise OpenAM will not be able to find it’s configuration and assume that …
I was asked by a colleague today to provide sources of analysis comparing Open Source IDM Solutions. I think they were looking for comparisons to closed source solutions but there is not a lot of that out there. I provided the following list as a starting point. I generally like to save time (avoid searching …