Oracle Identity & Access Management Questions & Answers

Identity and Access Management:
Q: What is an identity?
A: An identity is a piece of information used to identify an entity whether it is a user or group etc.,.

LDAP:

Q: What is an object class and their different types?
A: An object class specifies set of attributes that are used to define an object.

  • Structural. Indicates the attributes that the entry may have and where each entry may occur in the DIT.
  • Auxiliary. Indicates the attributes that the entry may have.
  • Abstract. Indicates a “partial” specification in the object class hierarchy; only structural and auxiliary subclasses may appear as entries in the directory.

Q: Give sample ldif files for scenarios creating new object class, new attribute, add attr to user entry, add obj class to user entry?
A: 

dn: cn=subschemasubentry
changetype: modify
add: objectclasses
objectclasses: ( 1.2.3.4.5 NAME ‘myOC’
DESC ‘my Objectclass definition’ MAY myAttr )

dn: cn=subschemasubentry
changetype: modify
add: attributetypes
attributetypes: ( 1.2.3.4.5.6.7 NAME “myAttr” DESC “New attribute definition” EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
SYNTAX “1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15” )

dn: cn=person one,ou=eurosinet suite,o=imc,c=us
changetype: modify
add: myAttr
myAttr: myattrValue1

dn: cn=person one,ou=eurosinet suite,o=imc,c=us
changetype: modify
add: objectclass
objectclass: myOC
 

Q: What is DN and RDN?
A: A DN is the LDAP entry that uniquely identifies and describes the entry in LDAP server.
cn=Jones,dc=oracle,dc=com is the DN of user Jones and RDN is cn=Jones. 

Q: How do you define Identity Management & Access Management?
A: Identity Management enables customers to manage end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources securely. Access Management provides web access management including authentication, fine grained authorization, federation and proactive online fraud prevention.

Q:What are various domains that fall under identity management?
A: Identity Management, Access Management, Directory Management. Oracle Products that fall under Identity Management are Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Role Manager. Oracle products that fall under Access Management are Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Entitlement Server, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Identity federation and Enterprise Single Sign-On. Oracle products that fall under Directory Management are OID and OVD.
Note: I will be updating this post every now and then. So keep tuned to this.

About the Author Mahendra

I am engulfed in Oracle Identity & Access Management domain. I have expertise on providing the optimized solutions for user provisioning, web access management, Single Sign-On and federation capabilities etc., I am also well versed with complex integrations within Identity Management and other product domains. I have expertise on building demos and implementation experience on products Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Entitlement Server, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Internet Directory etc., Look @ my blog: http://talkidentity.blogspot.com

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6 comments
vinod says November 10, 2010

Hi
Thnx for posting some useful information on OAM.
Can u post some FAQ’s on OIM.

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pavan says December 8, 2010

thnaks for providing

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SAGNIK ROY says June 20, 2014

Thanks for sharing your knowledge in OIM.

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Abhishe Bajaj says July 15, 2016

Thanks,
its very useful,
please provide something more about OIM OAM Integration.

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Girija says June 23, 2017

Thank u for the useful information

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Girija says June 23, 2017

Thanks for useful information

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