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The GN4-3 WP5 T2 Trust and Identity Incubator (“T&I Incubator”) aims to develop,
foster and mature new ideas in the Trust and Identity space in Research and
Education. The incubator will investigate new technologies that currently have no
place (yet) in the services ecosystem of the GÉANT project. This may include to
test and experiment with potential new features for existing GÉANT services. In
addition also business case development for potential new services and
developments that would improve data protection and privacy aspects in services or
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The T&I incubator runs four to eight incubator activities per project year in
parallel. These incubators typically take about 6 months and employ an agile
methodology to enable rapid development of ideas. Preferably at least two subject
matter experts work together with support from the project team. Subject matter
experts are recruited from within the team or, preferred, sponsored by their
NRENs. In addition, the project team facilitates the incubator track by providing
a scrum master and dedicated developers.
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Main Incubator Board (MIB) aims to represent a broad view on Trust and Identity
related developments in R&E. MIB members are senior subject matter experts from
the European NREN trust and identity community. They evaluate new ideas and
provide advice to the work package lead. They are also responsible for reviewing
activities at the end of each incubator cycle and providing recommendations on how
to proceed. The incubator team presents their results regularly to the the MIB's
and the wider community. In the middle and at the end of a cycle there are two
events public events, so called sprint demos.
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Identity and Access Management (IAM) is about creating and managing digital identity
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access his identity and only entitled can access a resource. In this area, it is all
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nowadays mandatory. In this area, you may investigate, test and integrate new
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The Incubator accepts proposals from the entire R&E community as long as they are
suitable to improve the T&I space. All kinds of innovative ideas are welcome,
regardless of whether they are about new products, improving existing services or
even completely disruptive. The format for submitting a proposal is designed to be
as simple as possible. There is a "Call for Ideas" page in the GÉANT wiki where
anyone can share their ideas. All you have to do is create a new row in the table
and describe your own idea. Other community members can comment and support it.
The more popular an idea is, the more likely it is to be implemented in the
Incubator. New ideas can be submitted at any time, but there is a deadline before
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Research communities have a need to express and potentially share certain trust marks on IdPs
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federations. This is why this activity implemented a proof of concept based on a given set of
community requirements and investigated in potential scenarios and impacts.
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This activity examined how identity vetting and token registration can be scaled for
second-factor authentication scenarios where participants are distributed over EU and beyond.
As part of this activity a specific flow - based on a community-based approach - was
investigated. It takes into account the concept of the Web of Trust. While this mechanism
typically does not work well in broad user groups, it is very well suited to distribute trust
between small groups where a pre-existing trust fabric is already in place, as we typically
have in research communities. What was missing is a means to make this trust network auditable
and transparent. In order to make the trust network transparent, this activity identified and
developed tools to support this flow.
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The outcome is intended to be used in the scope of <strong>research communities</strong>. In
collaboration with the <strong>eduTEAMS task</strong> the results can be used to provision
and improve the Stepup solution of the GÉANT service.
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capability and applicability of affordable devices from the Cryptech project for use cases
within the GÉANT project and to set up devices for testing purposes.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li>Evaluated usage of Diamond Key appliances and capabilities</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Am5R3MypAuiZyNoEmPVhLLrvrKby3CUlUpnzIDfyZw/edit"
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The work could not be concluded as Diamondkey seased operations during the evaluation
period.
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Discovery is used in Federated Identity Management to locate the users home organization. This
activity evaluated the pilot discovery service ran in the previous GÉANT project and
investigated if/how the implementation technology Seamless Access developed within the RA1
project can be used for an implementation in eduGAIN.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a
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<li>Preparation of handover to eduGAIN service activity</li>
</ul>
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<p>
The work has been concluded in the Incubator and was handed over to the
<strong>eduGAIN service task</strong>
for the purpose of making a production service.
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<p class="card-text">
A new paradigm, Distributed Identity, tries to let user be in direct control of the profile
information they share with services. Rather then letting others provide claims towards a
service, the users collects claim themselves from various sources and independently provides
these when so requested by services. The services can check the validity of these claims
against a central verifiable claims registry. This activity investigates the functional
requirements for such a system by interviewing key stakeholders.
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<p class="card-text">
Several research communities, especially in the life sciences domain, have a need to use
second factor authentication to improve the quality of their authentication. One of the
challenges identified was how to securely vet the second factor tokens of the participants of
a collaboration in a case where the members of the collaboration are very distributed, as is
the case in most pan-EU research collaborations. This activity investigated, together with
research communities, how the token registration can be scaled for scenarios where
participants are distributed over the EU and beyond. The aim of this task was to identify ways
this vetting can be done.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a
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<p>
A final report was delivered. The activity will continue for another
<strong>Incubator</strong> cycle.
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<h2 class="card-title">eduLNK</h2>
<p class="card-text">
eduLNK aims to provide software and potentially a servcie for a secure, persistent and privacy
preserving link shortener for research and education. Link shorteners reduce a lengthy URL on
the internet to something short and snappy, and sometimes easy to remember. As such it is a
very well used and liked functionality within our community. Many ‘free’ link shorteners
exist, however, their free nature comes with a number of challenges, including serving
advertisements and data mining the users behaviour and interests. Next to privacy concerns,
many free link shorteners have a limited lifetime for the links they present. eduLNK aspires
to deliver a product from and for the community which can be trusted and used securely in a
privacy preserving way.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#"></a>eduLNK source code</li>
<li><a href="https://test.edulnk.org/">eduLNK prototype</a></li>
<li><a href="#"></a>Onboarding documentation</li>
<li><a href="#"></a>New Idea Form</li>
<li>
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<p>
A prototype of the eduLNK software was created and a public test instance was made
available. With the submission of the official new idea form, eduLNK may become a potential
new service in the GÉANT project.
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<p class="card-text">
Some systems, like non-web services, cannot be federated easily because they need user
accounts to be provisioned before they can login. A prototype of an instant deployment tool
called FEUDAL was developed by KIT. It facilitates provisioning of user accounts using virtual
organisations (VO). Feudal is based on OIDC: It is an OIDC client, and it simply transports
the information of the /userinfo endpoint along. Feudal is based on the concept of VOs (or
authorisation Groups), i.e. the end services provide the information which VOs it supports.
Feudal web fronted will only display services for provisioning to a given user based on his VO
membership.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://wiki.geant.org/x/-4VgBw">Architecture document</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://git.scc.kit.edu/feudal">Publicly available source code</a></li>
<li>
<a
href="https://git.scc.kit.edu/feudal/feudalAdapterLdf/-/blob/incubator-uros-ldap/ldf_adapter/backend/ldap.py"
>LDAP integration POC</a
>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://feudal.scc.kit.edu/"
>Test environment <small>including eduTEAMS integration</small></a
>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://wiki.geant.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148078632"
>Promoted demo videos</a
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<h5>Ownership & Utilisation</h5>
<p>
The aim of this project was to create an easy to use, adoptable software solution to
provision server users and provide this tool to the <strong>community</strong>. The solution
is ready to be picked up and further developed and used by <strong>KIT</strong>. They plan
to use this software in two <strong>"Helmholtz" projects HDF and HIFIS</strong> in Germany
for the foreseeable future. Besides this, the solution was adjusted to the needs of
eduTEAMS. The solution was provided to the <strong>eduTEAMS service task</strong> to be
integrated into the GÉANT service.
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</li>
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<p class="card-text">
Both research communities as well as institutions have a need for proper proof of the identity
of their users. This ranges from cases where e.g. new students living abroad need to be
identified as part of the boarding into an institution, to scenarios where access to (medical)
data puts regulatory demands on the research community. Identity proofing is however expensive
and scales very poorly, especially in cases where the users are (very) distributed. This
activity investigates, based on requirements collected from multiple stakeholders, if and in
which way this situation may be improved.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a
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</li>
<li>
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</li>
<li>
<a
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</li>
<li>
<a
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<p>
Our findings indicated a strong desire for information about the capabilities of the various
document-based identity verification solutions, which would help in defining what the
requirements and suitable deployment model for an R&E focused solution could be. In
particular we concluded that further work would be needed to reach a definitive conclusion
and recommended: Establishment of a platform for information capture and exchange on
document-based identity verification solutions Comparative analysis of available commercial
solutions should be performed and made available Surveying of the broader R&E community
based on the findings so far to see the level of interest and support more generally
Constructing a preliminary business case for a community-operated service following the
broader survey It is hoped that an interested party or parties can take this work forward,
as further work on this topic is currently outside the scope of the Incubator.
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<p class="card-text">
The former GN4-2 project developed a solution to offer an IdP as a Service solution (IdPaaS)
for hosted IdPs. This activity aimed at investigating the business case of this solution and
to create a reference design and implementation for an easy to use software solution to enable
NRENS to provide an IdPaaS offering.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wiki.geant.org/x/h4fYBw">IdPaaS Reference Design</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wiki.geant.org/x/7wr5Bw">IDPaaS Reference Implementation</a></li>
<li>
<a
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<p>
The work has been concluded within the Incubator. samlidp.io is available as an open source
software for the <strong>community</strong> and may be used by commercial vendors as well.
</p>
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<p class="card-text">
Metadata is at the heart of the trust fabric of current R&E Identity Federations. For the
trust to properly propagate, this metadata is first collected from and then distributed by the
federation towards the federation members. This activity had investigated a new proposal
called "push MDQ", which introduces a new, potentially highly scalable way of distributing
metadata.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/mrvanes/pyFF/tree/websub">Publicly available source code</a>
</li>
<li>
<a
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</li>
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<p>
All changes made to the pyFF software were uploaded to the official software project to be
maintained by the <strong>IdentityPython group</strong>. Furthermore, all results of the
push MDQ analysis and the POC were transferred to the
<strong>eduGAIN service task</strong> for further improvement of the GÉANT service.
</p>
</li>
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<p class="card-text">
<a href="https://indigo-dc.gitbook.io/oidc-agent/">oidc-agent</a> is a command line set of
tools that enables the users to manage and obtain (mostly) OIDC tokens on command line. It
follows the design of the ssh-agent and, as such, it can be easily integrated in the user's
flow. However, current version only covers Linux and MacOS users. This activity would port the
oidc-agent to Windows OS. The expected impact is potentially large, since users from many
communities that may use this tool (such as HPC, or any community that need constant access to
computing and storage resources as part of their work) typically rely on Windows as their main
operating system. This activity investigates the best approach to porting the oidc-agent.
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<p class="card-text">
SimpleSAMLphp (SSP) is a commonly used software product for both SP and IdP deployments in
Research and Education. In addition it may also be deployed as a proxy. Next to SAML, various
other authentication protocols are supported.While SSP already supports the OpenID Connect
(OIDC) Relaying Party (RP) interface, an OIDC OpenID Provider (OP) implementation is missing.
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This activity seeks to implement an OIDC OP in accordance with the OIDC specification into
SSP. There is an existing module available at Github. It needs to be investigated whether this
is suitable for this activity.
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Many research collaborations as well as campus services need a solution to deal with guest
identity, as in many cases not all users are members of the academic Identity Federations. As
a result, several federation operators as well as research collaborations operate IdPs or
proxies to allow users to authenticate through external identity providers like social ones.
This has led to serious reinventing of the wheel. This pilot aimed to bring the widely used
ORCID service into the GÉANT IDhub as Identity Provider of last resort. Furthermore
organisational and legal aspects as well as technical improvements were investigated.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
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<a
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The work has been concluded with the results handed over to be further developed in the
<strong>IDhub</strong> to improve the GÉANT service.
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pyFF is an open source and widely used product which is used to provide Discovery and Metadata
Query services for identity federation. This topic investigates optimizations in pyFF
operations, including but not limited to, performance and memory consumption. When processing
the eduGAIN metadata, pyFF memory usage balloons to the gigabytes, hereby inflicting some
extra cost when running on procured VM's like AWS. The startup/restart process speed, and
service behavior while being started/restarted may also be improved. In particular, the
service should never throw 5xx errors while in a normal startup/shutdown process.
<br />The goal of this project is to optimize pyFF memory consumption and (re-)start behavior.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
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<li><a href="#"></a>pyFF test report</li>
<li><a href="#"></a>Metadata mockup report</li>
<li><a href="#"></a>Blog post</li>
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<a
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The aim of this activity was to investigate whether the existing pyFF software can be
optimised to reduce memory consumption and improve performance. For this purpose, intensive
profiling of the software was carried out and a large number of experiments were conducted.
All tests and results were documented in a report, which was passed on to the developer
communities of the tools.
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The eduGAIN Support Team, Secretariat and business development received several requests from
SPs, IdPs and NRENs for an eduGAIN Service Catalogue. Currently the eduGAIN Entities Database
tool and REFEDS Metadata Explorer Tool (MET) are the two services closest to a service
catalogue, but there are inconsistencies between the two tools.
<br />
The Incubator attempts to improve the solution based on the outcome of this pilot phase.
Depending on the requirements and use cases that need to be supported, new features can be
added in following an iterative process. If there are not enough participants to provide a
meaningful amount of data, no additional developments will be carried out by the Incubator. In
this case, the software is decommissioned at the end of the pilot phase and the project is
terminated.
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The T&I activities of the GEANT project run a multitude of services ranging for eduroam and
eduGAIN to InAcademia, eduTEAMS and various smaller helper services for eduGAIN without a
single overview of the state of all these services. The highly distributed nature limits our
ability to present in a consistent way the status of these services and it hinders us in
explaining issues when something is wrong. This is relevant both for members of the GEANT
community as well as other other stakeholders like service owners and funding agencies. This
activity wanted to create a comprehensive, high level and user friendly publicly facing
service dashboard for T&I services. Since many freely or commercially available services for
measuring availability already exist this activity investigated and compared them to choose a
suitable solution for the GÉANT project.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
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<a href="https://wiki.geant.org/x/PQOMC"
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<li>
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The result of the market analysis was provided to the <strong>T&I service task</strong>.
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Up to now, R&E federations are predominantly relying on the SAML2 protocol. With upcoming
needs from industry and commercial service providers the OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol is
increasingly moving into focus. This activity supported the development of an Shibboleth OIDC
Extension to the Shibboleth IdP and was paving the way to make the extension a fully sustained
product.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
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<li>
<a href="https://github.com/CSCfi/shibboleth-idp-oidc-extension"
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The work has been concluded and the results were handed over to the
<strong>Shibboleth consortium</strong>. The Extension is certified by the OIDC Foundation.
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It is currently very hard to test new releases of IdP and SP software against other IdP/SP
products. This activity attempts to design an automated test environment. A suitable
architecture for an IdP/SP continuous integration platform is to be created. This involves
creating use cases and identifying technologies that support them. An iterative approach, in
which use cases are successively implemented and products are integrated one after another, is
intended to quickly create a functional platform. If the CI approach is successful,
ready-to-use software packages can be provided using container technologies such as Docker, to
deploy the entire software locally by NRENs or other parties.
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To make the global eduGAIN interfederation scalable and interoperable, it is paramount
participants adhere to agreed upon standards and community best practices. There are currently
already several tools that examine the quality of federation metadata, the connection status
of their IdPs and the attribute release status of their IdPs. This activity is about creating
a tool to aggregate information from various sources and presenting this in an attractive,
easy to understand way to put this information readily into the hands of the federation
operators.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
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<a href="https://gitlab.geant.org/TI_Incubator/ansiblestatrep">Ansible deployment</a>
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<a href="https://gitlab.geant.org/TI_Incubator/edugain-reporting-web">Web client</a>
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<li>
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A prototype was developed that meets the expectations of the stakeholders. The tool, in
future called "eduGAIN Reporting", was handed over to the eduGAIN Task. In order to develop
this further, an eduGAIN reporting development team was founded. The created prototype is
used for additional tests with the users and replaced by a productive system a few months
later.
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This activity creates a freely available, realistic test IdP for the GÉANT community. Based on
the needs of the GÉANT community, the solution may offer SAML, OIDC and supports all the
latest best practices. The requirements and use cases for such a service will be defined in
collaboration with a group of community representatives. Potential features of such a tool
are: test for a specific set of attributes, create an account to save a test profile, an open
(REST) API to configure the IdP using a (web) client. There are different potential business
cases for deployment: as part of the eduGAIN support tools, by GÉANT operations or NREN
hosted.
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WebAuthn (Web Authentication), part of the FIDO2 Project, is a web standard published by the
W3C that enables strong authentication with public-key cryptography, passwordless
authentication, and secure two-factor authentication. The standard defines a JavaScript API
which allows token registration and subsequent authentication. This activity implemented this
API for the open source software SimpleSAMLphp and SATOSA, which enables them to provide 2FA
functions to the benefit of the R&E community.
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<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
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The developed modules were submitted to the upstream repositories to be officially
maintained by the <strong>simplesamlphp groups</strong> and <strong>CESNET</strong>. The
software was provided to the <strong>eduTEAMS service task</strong> to include it into the
GÉANT service.
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Identity provisioning and deprovisioning are a necessity for building modern authentication
and authorization infrastructures. They are straightforward yet technically complicated part
of identity and access management. The basic idea is to deliver identity and authorization
information to the managed services, which is complicated by a lack of applicable standards in
this area. Therefore, most of the Identity and access management solutions rely on a custom
solution for provisioning. To overcome this obstacle, this project extends existing IAM
capabilities by implementing a connector to easily provision data to services hosted on
Windows OS based on SSH.
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<h5>Results & Deliverables</h5>
<p>The following results were created and delivered:</p>
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<a href="https://wiki.geant.org/display/gn43wp5/Installation"
>Windows Connector Installation Guide</a
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<a href="https://github.com/CESNET/perun-services-windows"
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<small>including test automation and a windows installation package</small></a
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<a href="https://wiki.geant.org/display/gn43wp5/Test+Environment"
>eduTEAMS integrated test environment</a
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The aim of this project was to create an easy to use, adoptable software solution to
provision server users and provide this tool to the <strong>community</strong> As part of a
case study the solution was implemented for a
<strong>Czech University (Faculty of informatics MU)</strong> which will continue to use the
solution afterwards. <strong>CESNET</strong> will continue to use and maintain the software
for the foreseeable future. Besides this, the solution shall be adjusted to the needs of
eduTEAMS. The solution will be provided to the <strong>eduTEAMS service task</strong> to be
integrated into the GÉANT service.
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