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OpenRBAC: Why using an LDAP based Backend for Role Based Access Control Information

Combined Session
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:00—13:00
Location: AMMERSEE II

OpenRBAC is an open source implementation of the ANSI standard RBAC. It uses OpenLDAP as backend for storing information on user, roles, resources, priviledges, etc. This has a number of advantages and only very few limitations. Access decisions can be retrieved by simple ldap searches so that a OpenRBAC based Policy Decison Point can answer ten thousands of such queries per seconds. Since two other RBAC software products use LDAP, currently work is being done on an IETF Internet Draft to standardize the LDAP schema and a specific LDAP extended operation for interoparable implementations. The talk will introduce
RBAC, OpenRBAC and report on the LDAP standardisation work.

Peter Gietz
Peter Gietz
DAASI International GmbH
Peter Gietz, CEO of DAASI International, has an MA in humanities and is active in the field of IT since 1985. He is internationally recognized as an directory expert, with core expertise in X.500,...
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