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Symas™ Unified User Management

LDAP-based Authentication and Name Services

Symas™ Unified User Management (UUM, formerly known as Connexitor Naming Services or CNS) contains everything you need to make your UNIX or Linux systems and applications authenticate users from an LDAP directory. Delivered as a set of compiled, packaged and tested binaries, Symas UUM installs using native OS installation tools.

Symas Unified User Management is built from the following Open Source distributions:

• pam_ldap
• nss_ldap
• OpenLDAP
• OpenSSL
• Cyrus SASL

Freedom to Choose

Unlike many proprietary and OS-native authentication offerings that try to lock you into a particular directory server, Symas Unified User Management is designed to work with any directory server that supports LDAP version 3. Symas UUM is tested and known to work with the the following LDAP directory servers:

• Symas's OpenLDAP™ Directory Services™
• OpenLDAP foundation's OpenLDAP directory
• Novell's eDirectory
• Netscape™/iPlanet™/SunONE™/Java Enterprise Directory Server™ directories
• Redhat Directory Server™ and (probably) Fedora Directory Server
• CA's eTrust Directory™
• Microsoft's Active Directory™

Broad Platform Support

Symas UUM has been ported to a wide variety of platforms, including:

• HP-UX 11.0 parisc (Untrusted and Trusted modes)
• HP-UX 11.11 parisc (Untrusted and Trusted modes)
• HP-UX 11.23 parisc and IA64 (Untrusted and Trusted modes)
• Sunos 5.8 sparc
• SunOS 5.9 sparc
• SunOS 5.10 sparc
• AIX 5.2 PPC
• AIX 5.3 PPC
• Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (AS, ES, and WS)

Recommended Technical Support Provider

PADL Software recommends Symas for technical support of its pam_ldap and nss_ldap modules. Combined with our expertise with OpenLDAP, there is no better source of support for LDAP-based UNIX and Linux authentication.

Turnkey Solutions

Symas can develop, test, deliver, and manage a set of Symas Unified User Management and PAM configuration files that implement your company's security policy. These custom configuration files are delivered to you in a revision-controlled turnkey package that system administrators install using familiar native installation tools. This makes Symas UUM deployment and maintenance an absolute breeze.

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