I am working with a client today who has Oracle Identity Federation (OIF) 11g configured with Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 10g as the default Authentication Engine. With this configuration the authentication module is dictated by the OAM policy configuration. If you set the OAM policy (the policy that protects the /fed/user/authnoam resource) to IWA then …
#Oracle #OIF controlling the authentication method #SAML #IDM Read More »
I needed to import a group of users, into Oracle Internet Directory (OID) with attributes in a variety of backend data stores. I used Oracle Virtual Directory to virtualize the data stores into a single ldap view. I used the OVD adapter configuration to specify which attributes I wanted returned. I then exported using the …
Using sed to clean up an LDIF file for import #Oracle #Identity #UNIX Read More »
I have an Oracle Identity 11g environment running on VirtualBox 4.0. This is a development environment that I use to test out various installations and configurations. I noticed the other day that I wasn’t able to start the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) instance. When I checked the log file I can see that I am …
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On a virtual machine that I installed Oracle Identity Federation I found that I could not remember what I had set the Weblogic Server (WLS) password to. I needed a way to recover this password so that I would not have to reinstall WLS. This isn’t the first time I have forgotten the password to …
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We installed Oracle Identity Federation (OIF) 11.1.1.2 a few months ago and had to move on to some other, more pressing IDM-related issues. We finally came back to the Federation tasks at the beginning of September. The first thing I did was take an inventory of where we left off and compared to what the …
Many people ask how they should implement hardware-based load balancers into an Oracle Access Manager (OAM) implementation. As a rule of thumb: load balancers should be placed in front of the web/application servers where the web gates are installed (i.e., between the browser and the web server) and that is it. OAM has built-in load …
#!/bin/bash ############################################################# # Created on: 2/17/09 # Last Updated: 07/09/09 # Version 2.1.6 ############################################################# #clear the screen clear #check for root user (this script must be run as root) if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then echo “This script must be run as root” 1>&2 exit 1 fi # Confirm Start of Installation echo -n …
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