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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.
This activity 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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The goal of this activity is to create a production ready prototype based on the existing proof of concept, integrate it with eduTEAMS and provide it as an open source tool to the community.

Identity and access management components used in GÉANT eduTEAMS are not an exception. Thus they rely on custom connectors to deliver authorization data to managed services, usually utilizing standardized protocols like SSH or LDAP. Although this solution is not technically ideal, it works for most services operated on Unix-based operating systems. For services operated on Windows OS, there might be a problem to transfer the required data to the machines unless the service itself has an API for that, which is not always the case.
To overcome this obstacle, CESNET and Masaryk University piloted a simple connector for provisioning data to services hosted on Windows OS. The connector uses SSH as a data transfer protocol, which is currently supported by the latest Windows OS. SSH runs Powershell script on a destination which is customized for managed service, and its responsibility is to configure the service with provisioned identity and access control information.

This topic is related to Instant User Provisioning and Deprovisioning. Where possible, technical synergies shall be identified to the benefit of both solutions.

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This product eases the way of integration IAM into Windows based systems. It enables eduTEAMS to interact directly with services hosted on Windows and allows administrators to easily mange these systems.

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• The product handles identity, authentication and authorization
• No or only a few real user data are processed by the prototype developed by the Incubator

• A working prototype is implemented based on the POC
• The concept and implementation is documented
• The prototype is integrated into the eduTEAMS platform
• eduTEAMS integration is successfully tested
• The source code it provided to the open source community

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On the one hand, the solution will be provided to the eduTEAMS service task, which might develop it as part of the service. On the other hand, the source code is made publicly available and can be used by everyone in the T&I community.