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Using LDAP to solve one company's problem of uncontrolled user data and passwords


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By: Andres Andreu, 02/21/2004



This case study will analyze a massive undertaking of centrally consolidating user data, and in particular passwords, from numerous sources. The effort goes way beyond just the securely capturing and storing of the data but it builds a framework whereupon the data can be successfully used by numerous disparate applications for authentication, authorization, access control, and overall data management. This project faced some hurdles which seem all too common in the IT industry today. The number of applications for the company had grown out of control due to legitimate business needs and with each application came the responsibility and burden of user data security and management in very different fashions. Each target application existed in an island, or in a standalone model.

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