The difference between active directorate helda IDM when buying open al-Dabbagh, what are all these
directory services or what are the protocols?
I'm so confused.
Please help me.
Which director to use for my system if I have Linux Woodward use directly to use Helda, which is not
actually a directory service.
So a lot of people have this confusion.
So I have added this lesson specifically for those people who want to learn more about directory services
so I could help them, they would be able to implement in their environment.
So the first one and the top one, I would say, which I really like is the active directory is for
Microsoft.
Microsoft is the is the owner and who has built this product.
When you have thousands of Windows computers, you do need accounts to be authenticated against active
directory server.
So they have implemented or built an active directorate product.
So why it is so important in Windows as compared to Linux?
As I explained it before, Linux is mostly used in corporate environment for only system administrators
or developers or kuai people, the very few limited people and the users who actually need to log in.
They use the application to login.
So let's look at example.
For example, let's say you go to Facebook, you have your account right now.
Do you think when you log into your account, by the way, Facebook behind the scene running Linux.
So when you log into Facebook and you log into your user, your email address, your password.
Do you think that account information is saved in your Linux?
No, it is saved in some kind of database.
And that database is communicating with your client, with your you are the Cleide on the other side.
So you log in, it gets authenticated to another machine.
It's not a Linux local account.
It's some kind of active directory or directory services that they are running.
It gets authenticated.
And that's how you are able to log in the same way.
And Windows works for directly and used and built by Microsoft.
Then we have IDM now.
OK, so active directories used in Windows environment.
What about Linux?
Well, not to worry about it, RedHat, which is, as I explained before, is corporate level operating
system, enterprise level.
They have to come up with something else to to maintain their users.
Now, Emran, you just said that you don't really need users in Linux.
Then why do we need IDM?
I said that.
But what about the bigger companies?
What about those companies who have like, let's say, a hundred system administrators working for them?
Then of course, you want to create user accounts on a separate active directory type of way.
Right.
So for that, RedHat, build this product called IDM, which is also which is an abbreviation for identity
manager.
This is is it available in S.O.S?
I think it is, but I'm not 100 percent sure, but I'll look it up.
So it is definitely available in RedHat.
Now, also, another thing that some of the ID identity manager features are available in CentOS that
I know, but completely is a complete product.
I'm not 100 percent sure.
And he will look it up, go Google it and see how identity manager works.
Then we have when byrn now what is of in mind is that directory service.
Is there some kind of directory out there.
This call went blind now.
So what happened is Sambor you guys probably have heard of Sambor, right.
Sambor came up with this add on feature or you call it component in Linux that allows the Linux users
to get authenticated against Windows Active Directory.
Hmm.
What did I just say?
OK, I'll explain it in a simpler way.
If you have acted directly users and they wanted to log into Linux machine, they cannot because Windows
only talk to Windows.
So how can I log in to Linux machine?
Well, then you need some kind of a communicator messenger in the middle.
So Sambor, of course, it's open source.
Sambor created this product called When Binde, which allows Windows users or Windows Active Directory
users to log into Linux machines using then binde.
How does it work?
You could just go into your Linux machine, you install download when buying and configure it.
And there are a few things that you have to make change.
Is to your machine, and it will start getting authenticated to the active directory, is it a long
process?
No, it's not.
If you read the documentation, there are so many documentation online that you could use to configure
your Linux machine to get Ben Bine working.
That will get authenticated for your usage from actor director Microsoft.
Then we have open LD up, huh?
Well, Deb, I know what is open held up now.
You guys need to make a difference between LD and Open LDAP.
Once again, I'm going to say that again, eldership is a protocol.
Again, it stands for lightweight directory access protocol.
But in Linux we need some kind of open source open helda because IDEM is a product for by had that you
need to buy.
What if I don't want to buy it?
What if I just wanted to test it?
Then there is a product called Open Elde Up.
You could simply download and install or jume install open held up by the way.
I will Kohr open eldership up installation Linux in my module seven because in module seven we are going
to enable Linux for Internet access and that's how we will download all the packages, we'll do package
management, all the stuff.
So I have put this open elde up lesson in that module.
So remember, if you need to come back to this lesson to relate to that Module seven lesson, you could
do that.
So again, going back to my point, open up is a directory services just like active directory, just
like IDEM.
It's open source and it is specifically used for Linux or Unix type of environment.
Then we have IBM directory services, so there is a product by IBM, it's it's their own proprietary
product which they sell to the customers.
So if your company is looking to buy or looking to implement a directory services to your environment,
you could also look into the IBM.
I never heard.
Sorry, I never used IBM before, but I heard many good things about it.
So you tried to look it up online.
Also, there's another one jump cloud, which is also serves as like a directory as a service.
You can look it up and at the end I put it in all that I am reemphasizing right here, guys, held up
is not a directory service, it's just a protocol.
So don't confuse that.
It stands for lightweight directory call.
If you are downloading any of the above directory service or directly structure in your Linux or Windows,
you need a protocol to communicate to it.
And that protocol is called El LDAP.
So once again, I'm going to add that that I will be installing Open LDAP in my module seven.
So you could right now you could just wait on it or make a note and once you get to module seven, then
you will see the open OLAP installation download installation.
So anyway, hopefully this has cleared up a lot of confusion for those people who are actually confusing
active directory OLAP.
And when buying and IDM, if you have any question, of course, feel free to send me an email or message
me.
I'm always here to help.