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:

• 2018-10-08 -- Slides available of Æ-DIR two lightning talks at 5th OpenLDAP Developers Day 2018:
  
  1. Using AppArmor/systemd for hardening
  2. Implementation details of aehostd
• 2018-10-13 -- Slides available of Æ-DIR talk at GNU/LinuxDay Vorarlberg 2018
• 2018-11-05 -- New release of aehostd -- custom PAM/NSS demon
• 2018-12-06 -- Æ-DIR lightning talk at Open Source Summit Paris, Paris
• 2018-12-13 -- Æ-DIR & OATH-LDAP talk at KA-IT-SI, Karlsruhe

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.