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The eDirectory browser view in IDM Designer can be used to browse through the objects in any of the eDirectory trees running on any platform. The view provides the dialog to pass the treeName/IP address and user credentials to login to the remote eDirectory server. After a successful login the eDirectory objects are displayed in a hierarchical tree format. The tree can be browsed by expanding/collapsing the containers which fetches the objects from the remote server.

Here's a way to make this process faster.

When I ordered my Thinkpad laptop I specified the best video card that was available thinking that it would be the best choice with SLED or OpenSuSE. That turned out to be a bad idea until now.

The ability to use Challenge/Response information for password reset information is one that Novell has offered for a long time. Setting default Challenge/Response values for a given user is not easily accomplished normally and can result in a new user getting prompted for data before they are familiar with business policies and the purpose of the prompts. Continue on to see how to set default, customized values for users using Novell Identity Manager (IDM) and some NMAS calls.

This article explains how to disable the password policies set for Active Directory and eDirectory. After you have disabled the password polices, you can configure Novell SecureLogin to change Active Directory and eDirectory users' passwords, simultaneously.

In this AppNote, Bart Andries explains how to configure SSO securely, with a combination of the NMAS Toolkit and his custom Java Data Injection module.

In computing there are two terms which are often confused: encoding and enciphering. One of them, with 'cipher' in its name, usually best refers to something that is cryptographically enciphered which means it was mathematically mangled in a fashion that the result, regardless of the input, is fairly random, patternless nonsense to the un-key-assisted eye. The other term refers to simply changing data from one form to another at is basic level. One type of encoding is 'base64' encoding, which is used through many areas of computing and can be explained much more-simply than most cryptographic cipher functions (in my opinion). This article is to show how, on many levels, Linux Just Does That.