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Copyright Dave Steiner and Jeremy Rosenberg 2010.
This work is the intellectual property of the authors. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the
reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author.
To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the authors.
From In-House to Open Source: Creating a Sense of Identity (Management)
Dave Steiner – Rutgers University
Jeremy Rosenberg – Simon Fraser University
October 13, 2010
ABOUT US• Dave Steiner
• Rutgers University – New Jersey• Identity Management Architect• Numerous IDM/Middleware Projects since 1984• Joined newly created IDM Team in 2006
• Jeremy Rosenberg• Simon Fraser University – Vancouver, BC• Identity Management Architect• Java Developer since 2004• MBA in Management of Technology
ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION• Campus Perspectives
• Legacy IdM Architectures• Strengths and limitations• Future requirements
• OpenRegistry Project• How did it start?• What is OpenRegistry?• Why open source?• State of the project• OpenRegistry workflow walkthough
ABOUT SFU
Simon Fraser1776 -1862
• One University - Three campuses• Burnaby• Surrey• Vancouver
• 32,000 students • 900 faculty• 1600 staff• 100,000 alumni
SFU’S IDAM LAYOUT
Amaint Account
Provisioning
Amaint Account
Provisioning
MailListsMailLists
Web ServerWeb
Server
UDDUDD
LDAPLDAP
WebCTWebCT
CASCAS
ADAD
PeopleSoftPeopleSoft
ShibbolethEduroam
ShibbolethEduroam
ZimbraZimbra
SFU STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS
• Centralized• Single computing IDs• CAS SSO
• Self Serve• Maillists/ACLS• Account Activation
• Auto Provisioning• Email / Filespace• WebCT
• Scalability• Support for new SoRs• No distributed admin
• Sustainability• Only two developers• (one is a rock climber)
• Granularity• General role support• No distributed data entry
SFU FUTURE NEEDS
• Capture more of the University Population
• More accurate and complete directory
• Greater auditing capabilities
• Built on sustainable industry standards
ABOUT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
• One University – Three campuses• New Brunswick• Newark• Camden
• Founded in 1766• Over 56,000 students• 4150 faculty• 6500 staff• Over 380,000 alumni
RUTGERS LEGACY
People Database(PDB)
StudentRecords
Database(SRDB)
Payroll
GuestAccountCreation
Kerberos/Safeword
CAS
Oracle
AccountCreation
SecurID
LDAP
Radius
APPLICATIONS
&
SYSTEMS
Data Flow
Query
RUTGERS STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS• Central Identities for
Students, Faculty and Staff• Central Authentication via
CAS and LDAP• Self-service credential
creation• Self-service email accounts
• Not all populations supported• Joint institutions not supported• Guests not well supported• Support is too centralized• Needs to be more real-time• De-provisioning
• manual, once a year
• Roles don’t match needs• Not an integrated system but
grew up over time
RUTGERS FUTURE NEEDS
• A long term, core identity management solution• Single identity throughout person’s lifetime
• Extend – e.g. for students, from Prospect through Alumni • Add population types
• Faster propagation of data, real time where possible• Data for better provisioning and de-provisioning
• both electronically and physically
HOW DID OPENREGISTRY START?• Apr 2006 – creation of IDM group at Rutgers
• Production services (e.g. CAS, LDAP, Kerberos) • New development
• Aug 2006 – IDM as part of a new IT Strategic Plan• Nov 2006 – Rutgers IDM Assessment• Feb 2007 – Rutgers IDM Potential Initiatives • Mar 2008 – OpenRegistry design work started• Jan 2009 – Became a Jasig Incubator project• Late 2009 – SFU joined the project
WHAT IS OPEN REGISTRY?• An open source Identity Management system
• A place for data about people affiliated with your institution
• Combines distributed identity information into single identity records
• Identity store, but generally NOT authoritative• Identity reconciliation for multiple SoRs• Identifier assignment• Input: web, batch and REST interfaces from SoRs• Output: queues, REST, batch, report server, Directory
Builder, provisioning and de-provisioning
WHAT IS OPEN REGISTRY?
OPENREGISTRY ARCHITECTURE
WHY AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT?• “Off the shelf” solutions require significant
customizations and integration work and may only solve a portion of an institutions needs
• Open source collaboration > in-house building• Leverage scant resources • Decades of combined experience• Learn from others' experiences
• Sakai, uPortal, CAS, Shibboleth, Kuali• Not all knowledge with a few in-house people
• Tailored to the needs of higher education
STATE OF THE PROJECT• Generic data model designed and reasonably stable• Domain objects and base service layer code written for
• addPerson, addRole, updatePerson, updateRole, etc. • Currently being tested with real-life data
• Input methods well defined and being implemented, • Output needs further requirements/design• Production deployment at Rutgers in first half of 2011
• dependant on new PeopleSoft payroll deployment
HOW DID SFU GET INVOLVED?• Jan 2005 – Sponsored Account Management App• April 2007 –Single Computing ID Project
• No more multiple accounts for employees and students• One login for HR and Registrar with Roles
• Mar 2008 – Distance Ed becomes third SoR• Aug 2008 – Lightweight Accounts Introduced
• No Email or Unix file space provisioned
• Aug 2009 – Contact with Rutgers IdM team• Sept 2009 – Jasig Un-conference• Late 2009 – First commits to OpenRegistry• June 2010 – Additional Developers added
HR
SIS
Kipling, Rudyard
Undergrad
Staff
Former Undergrad
OpenRegistry
CODE
Bronte, Emily
CODE
WebCT
Bookstore
Bookstore Clerk
Faculty
Expired
THANK YOU
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