Introduction

Identity and Access Management for the university of Exeter currently exists as a Fedora-DS LDAP directory service offering authentication verification against stored encrypted passwords to a few major applications. It is not a  Single-Sign-on service. It propagates its content to subsidiary systems such as the Portal and Microsoft AD domain.

Information Services have held planning meetings to propose a full IAM system for the university but no funding or resources are available. Department heads and team leaders in IT Services are constantly pressing for funds and we hope they will be forthcoming in 2007.  An IAM project plan was written as part of Project SWISh. Although the timetable in the appendix is out of date, the technical justification and work plan are up to date.