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/wiki/spaces/E2D/pages/29982926  /  Installation and Configuration  /  Connecting to Directory Systems  /  Current: Connecting to Linux Servers

Connecting to Linux Servers

EmpowerID Linux connector allows organizations to bring the user and group data in their Linux systems to EmpowerID, where it can be managed and synchronized with data in any connected back-end user directories. Once connected, you can manage this data from EmpowerID in the following ways:

  • Create new users
  • Edit user attributes
  • Delete users
  • Create new groups
  • Manage group membership
  • Delete groups

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Additionally, EmpowerID provides Provisioning policies or Resource Entitlements that allow you to automatically provision Linux accounts for any person within your organization based on your policy requirements. For more information on Resource Entitlements, see Configuring Provisioning Policies.


This topic demonstrates how to connect EmpowerID to Linux and is divided into the following activities:

  • Connecting EmpowerID to your Linux Server
  • Configuring the Linux Account Store
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To connect EmpowerID to your Linux Server

  1. Log in to the EmpowerID Management Console as an administrator.
  2. Click the application icon and select Configuration Manager from the menu.

  3. In Configuration Manager, select the Account Stores node and then click the Add New button above the grid.


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  4. In the Add New Security Boundary window that opens, select Linux from the Security Boundary drop-down and then click OK.




  5. In the Add Linux Connection window that appears, do the following:
    1. Type the IP address or FQDN for the server in the Server field.
    2. Type a name for the Account Store in the AccountStoreName field.
    3. In the UserName field, type the user name for the account EmpowerID should use to connect to the Linux server. This account should be a super user.
    4. Select the appropriate authentication option EmpowerID should use to connect to the Linux Server. When doing so, you have two options: You can type the password for the account in the Password (Option 1) field, or you can upload a Putty Key by clicking the Upload button and browsing for the appropriate key.
    5. Optionally, type the password for the private key in the Private Key Password (Optional) field.
    6. Click OK when ready.

  6. Back in the main screen of Configuration Manager, search for the account store you just created and then double-click it or right-click it and select Edit from the context menu.

    This opens the Account Store Details screen for the Linux connector. The use of this screen is discussed in the next section.

To configure the Linux account store

The Account Store Details screen contains three panes—the General pane, the Inventory pane, and the Group Membership Reconciliation pane—each with settings for configuring a different aspect of the Linux account store you just created. To view reference information about a particular pane, expand the drop-down for that pane.

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This pane is used to set general configuration information for the Account Store.

  • Account Store Name - This is the name you gave to the account store when you created it. To change this name, click the Edit button, enter a new name in the Account StoreFriendly Name window that appears and then click OK to close the window.

  • Resource System Name - This is the name of the resource system EmpowerID created for the account store. To change this name, click the Edit button, enter a new name in the Resource System Friendly Name window that appears and click OK.

  • Connection Account - This is the proxy account you specified EmpowerID use to connect to and inventory the Linux server.

  • Maximum Accounts per Person - This specifies the maximum number of user accounts from this domain that an EmpowerID Person can have linked to them.

  • Icon - This is the image icon that represents this account store in the EmpowerID user interfaces.

  • Enable Pass-Through Authentication - This allows domain authentication to be used for logging in to EmpowerID. Unless Simple Search is enabled, the domain\username format needs to be used.

  • Enable Simple Username Search for Pass-Through Authentication - Simple search works in conjunction with pass-through authentication to allow users to log in without specifying a domain name. When this is enabled, EmpowerID first checks to see if the user name entered exists within its metadirectory and if so attempts to authenticate as that user. If a matching logon name exists but the login fails, EmpowerID then searches through all Accounts Stores where simple username search is enabled to find the correct user name and password combination. To enable this function, click the Enable Simple Username Search button to the left of the line and toggle it so that the green check is visible.

  • Allow Password Sync - Enables or disables the synchronization of password changes to user accounts in the domain based on password changes for the owning person object or another account owned by the person. This setting does not prevent password changes by users running the reset user account password workflows. To enable this function, click the Allow Password Sync button to the left of the line and toggle it so that the green check is visible.

  • Allow Person Provisioning - Allows or disallows EmpowerID Persons to be created from the user records discovered during inventory.

  • Allow RET Provisioning — Allows or disallows the Resource Entitlement (RET) Inbox process to auto-provision accounts for this domain for users who receive RET policy-assigned user accounts, but have not yet had them provisioned.
  • Allow RET De-Provisioning — Allows or disallows the Resource Entitlement Inbox process to auto de-provision accounts for this domain for users who still have RET policy-assigned user accounts, but no longer receive a policy that grants them a user account in the domain. De-provisioning only occurs if the de-provision action on the Resource Entitlement policy is set to De-Provision.
  • Allow Create Account On Membership Request — Select to allow users without accounts to request group membership and automatically have an account created.
  • Enable Attribute Flow — Allows or disallows attribute changes to flow between EmpowerID and the account store.


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This pane is used to enable or disable inventory of the account store as well as to set the run schedule for the EmpowerID Inventory Job.

  • Inventory Schedule - This is the time span that occurs before EmpowerID performs a complete inventory of the resource system. The default value is 10 minutes. You can change this at any time by clicking the Edit button.

  • Enable Inventory - This allows EmpowerID to inventory the Account Store. The Inventory Job must be enabled for inventory to occur. This is discussed further in the below section.

  • Inventory Provision Request Workflow - This is the request workflow that is initiated when new accounts are discovered via the inventory feature. If you set this workflow, theAllow Automatic Person Provision andAllow Automatic Join Provision flags described below are ignored. You can enable this feature by clicking the Edit button.

  • Allow Automatic Person Provision on Inventory - This allows EmpowerID to provision EmpowerID people for new accounts discovered during the inventory process if they meet the Provision Rule specified by theCustom_Account_InventoryInboxGetAccountsToProvision SQL stored procedure. This setting is discussed further in the below section.

  • Allow Automatic Person Join on Inventory - This allows EmpowerID to join newly discovered accounts to people during the inventory process if they meet the Join Rule as specified by theCustom_Account_InventoryInboxJoinBulk SQL stored procedure. This setting is discussed further in the below section.

  • RBAC-Assign Initial Group Membership On First Inventory - This setting pertains to Active Directory account stores only.

  • Re-Inventory - Enabling this option re-inventories all changes.


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This pane is used to enable or disable and schedule group membership reconciliation for the domain. When this function is enabled, EmpowerID dynamically manages the membership of the account store's groups, adding and removing users to and from groups based upon policy-based assignment rules.

  • Membership Schedule - This is the time span that occurs before EmpowerID runs the Group Membership Reconciliation Job. The default value is 10 minutes. You can change this at any time by clicking the Edit button.

  • Enable this Functionality - Enables and disables group membership reconciliation on the Account Store.


  1. From the General pane of the Account Store Details screen, enable each desired feature by toggling the icon to the right of each feature from a red sphere to a green check box. For example, if you want EmpowerID to provision an EmpowerID Person for each Linux user, toggle the red sphere to the right of Allow Person Provisioning to a green check box.

  2. In the Inventory pane of the Account Store Details screen for the account store, toggle the icon to the right of the Allow Automatic Person Provision On Inventory setting from a red sphere to a green check box if you enabled Allow Person Provisioning in the General pane and you want EmpowerID to automatically create a linked EmpowerID Person object for each new, unique Linux user discovered during the inventory process.

  3. If you are allowing automatic person provision on inventory, Click the Edit button to the right of Business Role for New Inventory Provision and select an appropriate Business Role for each new Person provisioned during inventory.

  4. Click OK to close the Business Role Selector.

  5. If you are allowing automatic person provision on inventory, Click the Edit button to the right of Location For New Inventory Provision and select an appropriate Location for each Person EmpowerID provisions during inventory.

  6. Click OK to close the Location Selector.

  7. The last step is to enable inventory. To do so, toggle the red sphere to the left of Enable Inventory so that it becomes a green check box.

  8. After several minutes, refresh the account store data by pressing the Refresh Data button located a the top of the Account Store Details screen. You should see that EmpowerID has inventoried the user and groups in your Linux server and provisioned the requisite number of EmpowerID Persons for those accounts (if you selected the provisioning options discussed above).




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