New Updates to our Web Application Support

Friday, March 13, 2009

I have been blogging a bunch lately on our Mac support and on the topic of UNIX privilege user management (aka superuser privilege management) that I have probably been remiss in giving updates on our web application support. We have been busy in this area as well. So here is a quick blog post on a recent update to our web SSO solution that provides authentication and security using Active Directory for Apache and J2EE application servers.

As a reminder, the DirectControl for Apache and J2EE application servers (e.g. WebLogic and WebSphere) are packaged as part of the Centrify Suite Application Edition and they provide the following capabilities:

• SPNEGO/Kerberos based-SSO to web sites and applications leveraging a user's Active Directory credentials
• NTLM, BASIC and FORMS authentication mechanisms for accepting a user's AD username and password
• Coarse-grained role-based authorization to web sites and applications based on AD groups and J2EE roles
• Personalization of the user's session with custom AD attributes
• Web access management across domains with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

Our newly released DirectControl version 4.2 for web applications is primarily a bug fix and platforms release based on customer requests and feedback. The primary platform additions included the following:

• IBM HTTP Server 6.1 (based on Apache 2.0) is now tested and supported across the same platforms as DirectControl for Apache 2.0
• JDK 1.6 is supported for Tomcat 6.0, JBoss 4.2 and Weblogic 10 (NOTE: Only direct AD authentication is supported, ADFS is known not to work with JDK 1.6)
• Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic and Websphere are now supported on Windows server 2003 64-bit and 2003 R2 64-bit, 2008, 2008 64-bit (NOTE: Apache not supported on Windows)
• Debian 4 32-bit and 64-bit is now supported
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, and 8.1 are now supported
• RHEL 5.2 is now supported
• Fedora 9 is now supported (for Apache only)

For a listing of all platforms we support for web applications, click here.

We have also recently extended our SAP platform support (e.g. adding HP-UX); click here to see the latest and greatest list of platforms we support for our Active Directory and SAP integration solution.

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