Mar 24
Ten different opinions or interpretation about same concepts by different people convinced me that it is time to shed some light on two very important concepts for StoneGate SSL VPN:
Directory Service and User Storage.
These two terms might be often related to the same backend technologies (like an OpenLDAP server for example), hence generating confusion and misunderstanding.
I will try now to give a clear explanation of usage and purpose of both, to blow fog away.
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written by RoarinPenguin - 664 views
\\ tags: difference, directory service, SSL VPN, user storage
Feb 10
When thinking to a system to allow secure, authenticated access to corporate application, major questions (headaches?) are:
- how to access to existing user repositories?
- what if I need a new one aside?
- what if I need access to multiple repositories?
- which information can I use?
- what about grouping?
StoneGate SSL VPN provides a very flexible and powerful answer to these questions, and this article will provide some useful details.
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written by RoarinPenguin - 929 views
\\ tags: SSL VPN, user storage
Dec 31
This last post of the disappearing 2009 is to share with you an interesting feature of StoneGate SSL VPN concerning definition of user groups.
The two possibilities offered by the solution allow to group users by User Location and by User Property.
While the first is pretty self explanatory, referencing a DN within a defined User Storage (e.g. OU=SSLVPN_Users,DC=example,DC=com), the second offers four possibilities:
- User Storage Location
- Custom Defined
- RADIUS Session
- SAML Session
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written by RoarinPenguin - 560 views
\\ tags: group definition, SSL VPN, user storage
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Ten different opinions or interpretation about same concepts by different people convinced me that it is time to shed some light on two very important concepts for StoneGate SSL VPN:
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