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Streamlining Active Directory Identity Management

Every company that has Active Directory as a backbone of its network infrastructure faces an identity management task that requires proper planning and organization.
Native AD management tools do not provide capabilities for effective and secure Active Directory identity management.

With this fact in mind software manufacturers were deep in thoughts for years when creating opportunities for fast and secure Active Directory identity management. The idea was to create a solution that would enhance native Active Directory management tools, providing more security and automation to the identity management process. Thus, the ready solution should cover the following capabilities:

• Provisioning and Deprovisioning
• Delegation of Control
• Approval-Based Workflow
• Regulatory Compliance

Provisioning and Deprovisioning:
Provisioning is the process of managing the lifecycle of an employee from the day when he is hired through all the changes in his jobs in the company and to the day of his leaving for any reasons. This lifecycle starts with creation of AD account, home folder, Exchange mailbox, adding user account to security groups and distribution lists. In case the employee takes another position in the company, his user account should be reprovisioned and after his leaving the company, completely deprovisioned due to security reasons. Now let's imagine this difficult, error-prone and time-consuming task, if executed manually. The solution that reduces these processes to minimum or simply automates them is a must for any enterprise.

Delegation of Control:
Native Active Directory management solutions do not provide fast and secure ways of permissions delegation. It is difficult to track what permissions have been assigned to a particular user and more difficult to revoke unnecessary ones that results in a huge Active Directory security threat. Fast and secure Active Directory identity management is impossible without solving problem of permissions delegation. The way out is a role-based permissions assignment. This model provides opportunity to assign permissions to users basing on their job roles.

Approval-Based Workflow:
Even though role-based delegation of permissions greatly increases security by providing non-administrative users the opportunity to fulfill only certain tasks, some of these tasks should still be double-checked both by a user and other responsible persons. Approval-based workflow is just perfect for that. It helps greatly increase control over Active Directory identity management process.

Regulatory Compliance:
Regulatory compliance should always be taken into account in the process of Active Directory identity management. When neglecting enterprise, country-wide and international standards it is possible to be set huge inconvenience if not penalties. The way out is maintaining data integrity that can be fulfilled only by means of third party solutions.

At first sight Active Directory identity management is easy and fast process, but enterprises are forced to invest huge sums of money for fulfilling it by means of native Active Directory management tools, and in the end it turns to be complex, error-prone and time-consuming task. Third party solutions provide more guarantees and opportunities. There are a lot of them on the market nowadays. Just make sure the selected software corresponds to all requirements of Active Directory identity management.

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Experienced IT enthusiast.

UNIX scripting?

I need to create a UNIX script to do some basic commands for me for my job. I'm looking for a little outside help. Its a simple script, but I'm not very familiar with scripting.

I would need one variable:
nFile = //created after uncompress (w/o .Z)

First I would need to enter a command:
# runord

This would do the following:
uncompress //This is a .tar.Z file
//Here find the new name of .tar file w/o .Z
//Fill nFile with new name
cp -rp nFile
cd
tar xvf nFile
cd
ls
//END

Then I would need to create the runord command in UNIX that used as a parameter, and I'm not sure how to do that either.

I need to see the actual written script if that's possible! You could send the example to my e-mail [email protected] if you don't want to send it on here. Thank you for your time.

Given that the first argument to the script
is the name of the compressed "tarfile", you
*could* determine the tarfile name via:

nFile=`basename $1 .Z`

Notice that those "quotes" are "back ticks"
and not forward single quote marks.

If you *want* to uncompress the file and copy
it to the destination directory, then that's
your choice. However, a well-known idiom for
"tar" is to uncompress and unpack all in one
pipeline. For example:

zcat $1 | ( cd ; tar xvf -)

You might also allow the script to accept
files which were not compressed, or were
gzip'd. Consider the following:

#!/bin/sh

DEST=/someplace # You fill this in

# check that $DEST is reasonable
if [ ! -d $DEST ] ; then
    echo "$0: You must set $DEST"
    exit 1
fi

# check for missing args or extra args
if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
    echo "usage: $0 compressed-tarfile"
    exit 1
fi

case $1 in

    *.tar.Z)
    zcat $1 | ( cd $DEST; tar xvf -)
     ;;

    *.tar.gz)
    gunzip < $1 | ( cd $DEST; tar xvf -)
     ;;

    *.tar)
    cat < $1 | ( cd $DEST; tar xvf -)
     ;;

    *)
    echo "$0: Unrecognized source file, $1"
    exit 1
     ;;
esac

To use it, you need to make it executable:

chmod +x ./runord

You should also place it in some location
which is in your $PATH. If that's not
obvious, to at least get started, you
can execute it from where it stands:

./runord foo.tar.Z

.

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Alain Supiot, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes - Voices on Social Justice

How to find a dream job?

Finally a triumphant time has come which allows you to follow you heart's desire to land up with your dream job. Compulsion is a thing of past and plenty of choice is the new mantra. This welcoming change has not come in day but is the fruit of the hard work of many people working for the placement industry. True, the emergence of full fledged industry in the name of placement industry is the cause behind the change in the employment scenario spread all over the world.

The hunger for suitable jobs has finally got a helping hand and as a result job search has emerged as a refined aspect.

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1. The job sites provide with an immense pool of both the employers and the job seeking candidates. Hundreds of thousand candidates are themselves enlisted on the job sites. This is beneficial on the both the ends respectively. While employers can search for the desired candidate and the candidates get an opportunity for searching their dream job.

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The recruitment directory is another thing that has proved immensely helpful in revolutionizing the all the aspects regarding finding new job. You can always get a recruiter directory specifically suitable to your needs. Recruitment directories are made available online and they are arranged keeping in mind facets of job search. Like recruitment directory for fresher is very much different from that of an experienced candidate. Likewise you can always find different directories for disciplines of jobs.

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