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6 Liberty Identity Provider for Novell eDirectory
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The result of this link is realized on the user's next authentication to the Liberty SP. If he or she is
connected to his Liberty IDP, he or she will be authenticated to the Liberty SP with no user
interaction.
It is important to realize that it is the user who controls his or her identity federation. Thus, the user
is responsible for federation (linking) and defederation of his or her identity information.
Benefits of the Liberty Identity Provider for Novell eDirectory
Novell
®
eDirectory TM is the most secure, high-performing, scalable Directory Service on the
market today, which are key requirements of a Liberty IDP identity store.
Using Liberty identity provider for Novell eDirectory software, you can accomplish the following:
Š Define a Liberty Alliance Identity Provider
Š Easily Create and Maintain User Identities
Š Define Liberty Identity and Service Provider Relationships
Š Securely Authenticate Users
Š Give Users Control to Federate and Defederate Their Identity Information
Define a Liberty Alliance Identity Provider
The Liberty identity provider for Novell eDirectory software delivers the technology to deploy a
Liberty Alliance 1.1 Identity Provider.
The “Liberty Server Requirements” on page 9 details the supported server platforms for the Novell
Liberty IDP. Once you have a supported server, and you have installed Novell eDirectory 8.7, you
are ready to install and configure the Liberty IDP technology.
Easily Create and Maintain User Identities
Novell's Web-based configuration tools allows the administrator to quickly define and maintain
user identities.
eDirectory 8.7 also provides the administrator with the option to import users using standard
LDAP format, or synchronize with an external user database by adding Novell DirXML
®
technology.
Define Liberty Identity and Service Provider Relationships
Novell has designed the Liberty IDP and SP configuration screens to allow the administrator to
quickly define the necessary information to define Liberty identity and service providers.
Liberty SPs are also able to provide configuration information that can be imported directly into
the Liberty IDP service.
Securely Authenticate Users
Having a secure identity store is worthless if you allow users to authenticate in an insecure manner.
The Liberty Identity Provider for Novell eDirectory software provides administrators with the
ability to encrypt the user's credentials during the authentication process.