What's New in OpenDJ
Compared to the OpenDJ , OpenDJ
fixes a number of issues. OpenDJ
provides the following new features.
OpenDJ now lets you filter access and audit logs to focus on
messages that interest you. OpenDJ supports many criteria for flexible
log filtering. (OPENDJ-308)
OpenDJ now logs use of the proxied authorization V1 control with
obsoleteProxiedAuthzV1Control (OPENDJ-283).
OpenDJ DSML gateway can now connect over SSL to the LDAP
server (OPENDJ-269).
OpenDJ now lets you delegate authentication to another LDAP
directory service, such as Active Directory. The feature is called
pass through authentication (PTA) (OPENDJ-262).
With PTA, OpenDJ replays a user's simple bind operation against the remote
directory service. If the bind is successful, OpenDJ considers the user
authenticated to perform subsequent operations like searches and updates
in OpenDJ.
For PTA to work, OpenDJ must be able to match its OpenDJ entry for
the user with the user's entry on the remote directory service. The two
entries must correspond in one of the following ways.
Both the OpenDJ entry and the remote entry have the same
DN.
The OpenDJ entry has an attribute that holds the DN of the entry
on the remote directory service.
The OpenDJ entry and the remote entry share an attribute that
has exactly the same value.
If user entries do not match originally, you can no doubt add an
attribute to users' OpenDJ entries when configuring them to use pass
through authentication.
To configure PTA, you set up an LDAP pass through authentication
policy in OpenDJ's configuration, and then assign the policy to users in
the same way you would assign a password policy. See the
Administration Guide for details.
OpenDJ now lets you configure attributes to be removed or renamed
on update (OPENDJ-258).
OpenDJ now calls Account Status Notification Handlers when an
account in enabled or disabled by the manage-account
(OPENDJ-248).
OpenDJ now adds Unindexed to access log response
messages for unindexed searches, making it easier to identify searches
rejected by default (OPENDJ-246).
OpenDJ can now synchronize Samba password attribute values with the
userPassword attribute value, ensuring that when users
change their LDAP passwords in OpenDJ or change their LanMan or NT
passwords in Samba, their password attribute values all stay in sync
(OPENDJ-233). To activate this feature, configure the OpenDJ Samba
Password plugin by using the dsconfig command.
OpenDJ now better supports more, and larger static groups
(OPENDJ-197).
Change log content and configuration has been improved in this
release (OPENDJ-194).
Default database cache size, request handler counts, and replication
purge delay are now set more sensibly for default installations
(OPENDJ-116, OPENDJ-186).
The character set password validator now supports optional character
sets (OPENDJ-168).
Collective attributes can now be applied based on the values of
virtual attributes (OPENDJ-76).
OpenDJ now lets you configure the access log to display LDAP
controls (OPENDJ-60).
OpenDJ now lets you execute control-panel as any user, not only the
user who installed OpenDJ (OPENDJ-19).