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Experience seamless integration of Linux and UNIX with Active Directory

Likewise Enterprise is an enterprise software solution that allows seamless integration of Linux, UNIX and Mac systems with Microsoft Active Directory. Organisations of all sizes running mixed networks and mixed identity management systems (such as non-networked authentication and Network Information System) can use Likewise Enterprise to allow UNIX, Linux and other systems/applications to use Microsoft Active Directory for their authentication needs.

You can quickly realize the value of Likewise Enterprise because it is the only solution that allows you to download and deploy to Active Directory with or without schema extensions in less than 5 minutes. Likewise Enterprise will improve the efficiency of your IT staff, strengthen network security and help you comply with regulatory requirements and Sarbanes Oxley.

Likewise makes it possible for Mac, UNIX, and Linux system administrators to manage Active Directory from a Mac or Linux machine. The Likewise Administrative Console is a plugable framework that provides MMC-like functionality and runs on Mac OS X and any Linux platform. From this console and through console based command you are able to

Domain Join Command-Line Utility
Likewise includes libraries that configure Linux, Unix, and Mac computers for seamless, error-free domain joins by automatically creating or modifying PAM, nsswitch, /etc/hosts, and Kerberos configuration files.

Command-Line Tools
Likewise comes with a set of command-line tools, which are located in the /opt/likewise/bin directory on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X platforms. The tools include utilities for finding users and groups in Active Directory, managing Kerberos tickets, troubleshooting connections to domain controllers, obtaining status and metrics, and diagnosing problems.

Custom Access and Compliance Reports
Likewise empowers you to create custom reports about Linux and Unix users, groups, computers, forests, and domains within Active Directory. There are a variety of access reports to illustrate the state of your access control rules. You can also choose from an assortment of compliance reports to help demonstrate regulatory compliance.

Group Policies for Logon, Authentication, and Authorization
Likewise lets you define group policies for computers running Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X. Likewise includes more than 100 policies that are custom made for non-Windows computers. All the policies are integrated with the Microsoft Group Policy Object Editor.

Group Policies for Mac
Likewise comes with more than 20 Mac-specific group policies. For instance, a Mac group policy can log firewall activity on target computers running Mac OS X.

 

Security Group Policies for Linux, Unix, and Mac
Likewise offers a number of group policies to manage security, such as a group policy to specify a sudo configuration file for target computers running Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X. The sudo configuration file is copied to the local machine and replaces the local sudo's file. The sudo file can reference local users and groups or Active Directory users and groups.

Policies Targeted by Operating Systems
Likewise can set the target platforms for a group policy, applying the settings to only the platforms that you choose. The target platforms can be set by operating system, distribution, and version. For example, target a group policy only at computers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Or, you can target the policy at a mixture of operating systems and distributions.

Group Policies for Managing Interoperability Settings
Likewise provides a range of group policies to manage the settings of Linux and Unix machines, including policies for specifying how Linux computers inter-operate with Active Directory. Likewise integrates the policies with the Microsoft Group Policy Management Console so you can view reports and details about your policies.

What can you do with Likewise Enterprise?

Active Directory- based Authentication and Authorization for Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X

• Join non-Windows servers to Microsoft Active Directory in less than 5 minutes
• Centralised administration including user provisioning and de-provisioning for Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X.
• Provides a single user name and password for Windows and non-Windows systems.
• Only solution with a flexible deployment model that allows you to extend the AD schema or not – but maintain full product functionality either way
• Support for multiple forests with one-way and two-way cross forest trusts.
• Credential caching in the event of temporary loss of connectivity with the Active Directory Domain Controller.
• Likewise Cell Technology allows custom mapping of an AD-user to a set of UNIX attributes and can provide users with different primary and second group memberships on different machines.

Group Policy-Based Management

• Leader in Group Policy support with 50+ policies – including policies for Security, Authentication and Identification, Logon, Display, Message, Logging and Audit, File System, and Tasks.
• Full Integration with the Group Policy Management Console and Group Policy Object Editor.
• Enables one to many management of UNIX, Linux and Mac configuration settings.
• Consistently implement security settings across the enterprise.
• The only solution that allows you to filter group policies to apply only to specific platforms.

Directory Migration

• Import Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X password and group files -- typically /etc/passwd and /etc/group -- and automatically map UIDs and GIDs to users and groups defined in Active Directory.
• Scripting layer and migration tools allow access to data in transparent fashion regardless of how you deploy.
• Resolve conflicts and ambiguous user names before you commit the changes.
• Generate a Windows automation script to associate the Unix and Linux UIDs and GIDs with Active Directory users and groups.

Reporting and Audit

• Pre-defined reports make it easy to view access privilege for all users, groups, containers, and systems managed with Likewise Enterprise.
• Permits customisation of output, including scoping, filtration, column selection, and data limits.
• Directly output data to screen, print, or save to HTML, XML, or CSV formats for use in third party reporting tools such as Excel or Crystal Reports.
• Easily generate a report that displays what settings within group policies are enabled for Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X systems through the Group Policy Management Console.

Single Sign On for Enterprise Applications

• Enables single sign-on for any enterprise application that supports Kerberos and LDAP including Samba, Apache, SSH, NFS, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, SAP, Oracle, MySQL.
• Built-In support for Apache, SSH, and Samba.

How does Likewise work?

In a Windows environment, user accounts are created in Active Directory to be able to participate in AD authentication. For a user to access resources on a machine that also participates in Active Directory, the machine also must have an account in Active Directory. The process by which an account for the machine is created in Active Directory is called “joining” the machine to Active Directory. Joining a machine to Active Directory was restricted to Windows workstations and server machines only.

With Likewise Enterprise, you can join Linux, UNIX and Mac machines to Active Directory. Once the Linux/UNIX machines have been joined to AD, a user who has been provisioned for UNIX and Linux access can now interactively login to the Linux/Unix machine with his or her Active Directory credentials. The user can also access any kerberized services that the Linux/UNIX machine hosts.

1. The Likewise Enterprise Agent is installed on Linux, UNIX or Solaris machines turning them into AD clients.
2. These machines are then joined to Active Directory from a graphical tool or through deployment scripts.
3. The Likewise Enterprise Management Tools are used to configure AD to store UNIX and Linux information.
4. Existing AD management tools are then used to manage configure Group Policies for non-Windows systems.

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