Identity management, authentication and registration at the University of Helsinki Tietotekniikkaosasto Ismo Aulaskari
Service perspective – bunch of applications Some authentication PortalWiki Blog Moodle Webmail Homegrown app X
Technologies used Central/Internal Authentication (University): radius, ldap, shibboleth (SAML2) Common federation (Haka) with other universities: shibboleth/SAML2. Radius for eduroam State-wide: Vetuma, which uses Tupas
Authentication and IDM perspective Radius LDAP ADUnixNetware Shibbleth IDP Web applications, desktop applications, workstations, , servers Light- account Lotus Notes Strong auth
Tupas Tupas is a certification service that’s standardized by Finnish Bankers’ Association Standard for authenticating and paying Costs per authentication/paying event Most citizens currently have internet banking accounts Usage in University of Helsinki requires Finnish SSN More information: &docid=11302&sec=&ext=.pdf
User account management perspective Oracle (master) LDAP AD Unix Netware Pull Student registry Employee registry The others ? To centralized authenticati on & authroziati on
Tools Master/Lohju: Oracle 10 database (and application) that includes all the information of the users and their accounts Synchronization scripts Huge automated script to populate LDAP Openldap 2.3 Two backend db:sdb:s Hot-swap-replicated Real cluster coming
Future perspective Even more centralized authentication Homegrown SSO - or better? Authorization by SAML? PortalWiki Blog Moodle Webmail Homegrown app X Hupnet
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