Authorized Entities Directory
The agile IAM for DevOps
Authorized Entities Directory (Æ-DIR) is a Privileged Identity and Access Management (IAM/PIM/PAM) based on OpenLDAP
News
- German talk at 19. Gulaschprogrammiernacht (GPN19):
aehostd -- NSS/PAM-Dienst für Æ-DIR, , HfG Karlsruhe, Germany
Main Objectives
- Strictly follow need to know and least privilege principles
- Agile data maintenance by consequent delegation of manageable small areas
- Provide meaningful audit trails for compliance checks
- Secure defaults
Key Features
- Fine-grained authorization
- Fine-grained delegation, ready-to-use role-model
- Role separation, multiple accounts per person
- Secure password handling, SSH key distribution
- Compatible to all LDAP enabled applications
- Two-factor authentication integrated with LDAP
- High availability out-of-the-box with LDAP server replicas
- TLS everywhere
- Service hardening out-of-the-box
Find longer introductions: Æ-DIR conference presentations.