identity-management

Lotus Notes, ID files, and how things are changing in new versions (8 and up).

For those who are not aware, Lotus Notes is a cool system, which has very powerful database replication abilities, and very strong certificate management and signing. However that strong certificate usage is itself one of Notes's downfalls. When you log in to Lotus Notes via a Notes client, the password you use is not stored anywhere...

Can I use the facebook credentials to for users to access my site?

Hi, I'm starting to work on a site that will be strongly connected to a corresponding Facebook app. I want the contents to be free for all to view, but only registered users will be able to edit it (quite similar to serverfault, actually). Since I think that most of my users will be logged in to facebook, I would really like to use the...

In salesforce.com can you have multivalued attributes?

I am developing a Novell Identity Manager driver for Salesforce.com, and am trying to understand the Salesforce.com platform better. I have had really good success to date. I can read pretty much arbitrary object classes out of SFDC, and create eDirectory objects for them, and what not. This is all done and working nicely. (Publisher...

An IdP/STS for SaaS providers, where the SaaS customer does his own user management?

(This question is not about programming, but about how to avoid doing any programming. Also, lots of terminology in here-- I'm assuming someone with an answer will already know what they mean.) Background: I'm working on single sign-on in an environment with 'federated identity'. We have several products that are federation-aware (usi...

IdentityManager seam problem

Hi, I have a problem with IdentityManager and seam. I explain my problem: In my application, I have a page to add permission to a role. The method to save it is here: JpaPermissionStore jpaPermissionStore = (JpaPermissionStore) Component.getInstance("org.jboss.seam.security.jpaPermissionStore", true); List<Permission> permissio...