Wren:DS is an LDAPv3-compliant directory service developed for the Java platform. It provides a central store for identity data and is designed for organizations that need a standards-based directory for authentication, authorization, user information, and application integration.
The project belongs to the Wren Security suite. Its codebase descends from OpenDJ, with roots in software previously developed by ForgeRock and Sun Microsystems. Wren:DS can operate as a standalone directory server or form part of a distributed directory infrastructure spanning multiple systems and locations.
It provides native LDAP access while also accommodating applications that need other ways to work with directory data. This makes it suitable as an identity data backbone for conventional enterprise services as well as applications that need to integrate with a centralized directory.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Full LDAPv3 support including search, compare, modify, add, delete, extended operations, and LDIF import and export.
- Multi-master replication with automatic conflict resolution and support for geographically distributed deployments.
- Fine-grained LDAP access controls with conditions based on users, authentication methods, network details, time, and attributes.
- Configurable password policies covering complexity, history, account lockout, expiry, and grace logins.
- TLS/SSL connections and several SASL authentication mechanisms.
- Tunable caching, indexing, entry compression, and a Berkeley DB JE storage backend.
- REST and DSML interfaces for applications that do not communicate directly over LDAP.
- Online schema management, including custom schema extensions without restarting the server.
- Monitoring through JMX, SNMP, and the built-in cn=monitor backend, together with operational statistics and alerting.
- Command-line utilities for configuration, directory searches and modification, task management, import, export, backup, and restore.
- Supports per-subtree configuration and custom directory schemas.
Website: github.com/WrenSecurity/wrends
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Developer: Wren Security
License: Common Development and Distribution License 1.0
Wren:DS is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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