Vintela Authentication Services allows you to seamlessly extend the security and compliance of your Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure to UNIX and Linux platforms and applications. It addresses the compliance need for cross-platform access control, the operational need for centralized authentication and single sign-on, and enables simplified, heterogeneous identity management.
Vintela Authentication Services functionally extends AD's security, compliance, and authentication capabilities to UNIX and Linux. It provides a cost-effective, enterprise-proven, and standards-based alternative to cumbersome and complex synchronization or metadirectory solutions. With Vintela Authentication Services, the same infrastructure, processes, and personnel that are already in place to manage Windows resources can now be extended to support and manage AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris UNIX as well as RedHat, SuSE, Fedora, and Debian Linux as well as VMware ESX Server and a wide range of UNIX-based applications including SAP, Oracle, DB2, and Java. The result is enhanced security and a clear path to enterprise-wide regulatory compliance.
With Vintela Authentication Services, UNIX and Linux systems natively and seamlessly become full members of AD - joined to the AD domain. That means that many of the advanced capabilities AD offers in Windows environments can be extended to those systems, which previously couldn't take advantage of these features. Thus, in addition to integrating UNIX and Windows identities, Vintela Authentication Services enables Group Policy for UNIX configuration management.
