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

Steps

To connect EmpowerID to your Linux server, you do the following:

1. Create a Linux account store in EmpowerID

2. Configure attribute flow

3. Configure Linux account store settings

4. Enable the Account Inbox permanent workflow

5. Monitor inventory

Step 1 – Create a Linux account store

1. On the navbar, expand Admin > Applications and Directories and then click Account Stores and Systems.

2. On the Account Stores page, select the Actions tab and then click Create Account Store.
   

   

3. Under System Types, search for Linux.

4. Click the record for Linux to select the type and then click Submit.
   

   

   This opens the Linux form, which is where you enter the information needed to connect EmpowerID to the system.
   

   

5. Enter the following information in the Linux form:

   • Server – Enter the IP address or the FQDN for the server

   • Name – Enter a name for the account store

   • User Name – Enter the user name for the account EmpowerID should use to connect to the Linux server. This account should be a super user.

   • Password – If you want to use password authentication, enter the password for the above user account.

   • Use Certificate – If you want to use certificate authentication, select this option (check it). Doing so hides the Password field and displays the Certificate and Certificate Password fields.

     • Certificate – Click Choose File and then browse to and select the appropriate certificate.

     • Certificate Password – Enter the certificate password.
       

       

   • Is Remote (Requires Cloud Gateway) – This setting appears for account stores with local directories, such as Active Directory, LDAP, SAP, etc. When enabled, this tells EmpowerID to use the Cloud Gateway Connection for that account store. The Cloud Gateway Connection must be installed on an on-premise machine. For installation information, please see Installing the EmpowerID Cloud Gateway Client.

6. Click Submit to create the account store.

EmpowerID creates the account store and the associated resource system. The next step is to configure the attribute flow between the account store and EmpowerID.

Step 2 – Configure attribute flow

1. From the Account Stores tab of the Account Stores and Systems page, search for the account store you just created and click the Account Store link for it.

2. Click the Attribute Flow Rules tab to view the current rules for the account store. Please note that the attributes available depend on the account store.

3. To change the flow for an attribute, click the Attribute Flow drop-down located between the Person Attribute column and the External Directory Attribute column, and select the desired flow direction from the context menu.

4. To change the score for any of the available CRUD operations (Create, Update and Delete), enter the new score in the appropriate field. By default, scores are weighted evenly, which means that a change to an attribute originating in one connected external directory has the same authority as a change to an attribute occurring in another connected external directory.
   

Step 3 – Configure account store settings

1. On the Account Store and Resource System page, click the Account Store tab and then click the pencil icon to put the account store in edit mode.
   

   

   
   This opens the edit page for the Linux account store. This page allows you to specify the account proxy used to connect EmpowerID to your Linux system as well as how you want EmpowerID to handle the user information it discovers in the Linux system during inventory. Settings that can be edited are described in the table below the image.
   

   

   
   

   Account Store Settings
   Setting	Description
   General Settings
   IT Environment Type	Allows you to specify the type of environment in which you are creating the account store.
   Option 1 Specify an Account Proxy	Allows you to change the credentials for the account that EmpowerID uses to connect to and manage the account store.
   Option 2 Select a Vaulted Credential as Account Proxy	Allows you to use a credential that you have vaulted in EmpowerID as the account that EmpowerID uses to connect to and manage the account store.
   Inventoried Directory Server	Inventoried Directory Server
   Authentication and Password Settings
   Use for Authentication	Specifies whether user credentials in the external system can be used to authenticate to EmpowerID.
   Allow Search for User Name in Authentication	This setting 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 Identity Warehouse 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.
   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.
   Queue Password Changes	Specifies whether EmpowerID sends password changes to the Account Password Reset Inbox for batch processing.
   Password Manager Policy for Accounts without Person	Specifies the Password Manager Policy to be used for user accounts not joined to an EmpowerID Person.
   Authentication and Password Settings
   Allow Person Provisioning (Joiner Source)	Specifies whether EmpowerID Persons can be provisioned from user accounts in the account store.
   Allow Attribute Flow	Specifies whether attribute changes should flow between EmpowerID and the account store.
   Allow Provisioning (By RET)	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 Deprovisioning (By RET)	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.
   Max Accounts per Person	This specifies the maximum number of user accounts from this domain that an EmpowerID Person can have linked to them. This prevents the possibility of a runaway error caused by a wrongly configured Join rule. It is recommended that this value be set to 1 unless users will have more than 1 account and you wish them to be joined to the same person.
   Allow Account Creation on Membership Request	Specifies whether EmpowerID creates user accounts in the account store when an EmpowerID Person without one requests membership within a group belonging to the account store.
   Recertify All Group Changes as Detected	Specifies whether detected group changes should trigger recertification.
   Default Person Business Role	Specifies the default EmpowerID Business Role to be assigned to each EmpowerID Person provisioned from the user accounts in the account store.
   Default Person Location (leave blank to use account container)	Specifies the default EmpowerID Location to be assigned to each EmpowerID Person provisioned from the user accounts in the account store.
   Directory Cleanup Settings
   Directory Clean Up Enabled	Specifies whether the SubmitAccountTermination permanent workflow should claim the account store for processing account terminations. When enabled, accounts in the account store that meet the qualifications to be marked for deletion are moved into a special OU within the external directory, disabled and finally deleted after going through an automated approval process. This process involves setting a number of system settings in EmpowerID and requires multiple approvals by designated personnel before an account is finally removed from the account store.
   Report Only Mode (No Changes)	When enabled, a report of what the Directory Clean Up process would do is written to the log. The process itself is ignored and all accounts are set to Termination Pending.
   Special Use Settings
   Automatically Join Account to a Person on Inventory (Skip Account Inbox)	Specifies whether EmpowerID should attempt to join user accounts in the account store to an existing EmpowerID Person during the inventory process. When enabled, the Account Inbox is bypassed.
   Automatically Create a Person on Inventory (Skip Account Inbox)	Specifies whether EmpowerID should create new EmpowerID Persons from the user accounts discovered in the account store during the inventory process. When enabled, the Account Inbox is bypassed.
   Queue Password Changes on Failure	Specifies whether EmpowerID should send password changes to the Account Password Reset Inbox only when the change fails.
   Inventory Settings
   Inventory Enabled	Allows EmpowerID to inventory the user information in the account store.
   Inventory Schedule Interval	Specifies the time span that occurs before EmpowerID performs a complete inventory of the account store. The default value is 10 minutes.
   Enable Group Membership Reconciliation	Allows EmpowerID to reconcile group membership
   Membership Schedule Interval	Specifies the time span that occurs before EmpowerID runs the Group Membership Reconciliation job. The default value is 10 minutes.

2. Edit the account store as needed and then click Save to save your changes.

Next, enable the Account Inbox permanent workflow to allow the Account Inbox to provision or join the user accounts in Domino to EmpowerID Persons as demonstrated below.

Step 3 – Enable the Account Inbox permanent workflow

1. On the navbar, expand Infrastructure Admin > EmpowerID Server and Settings and select Permanent Workflows.

2. On the Permanent Workflows page, click the Display Name link for Account Inbox.
   

   

   
   

3. On the Permanent Workflow Details page that appears, click the pencil icon to put the workflow in edit mode.
   

   

4. Check Enabled.
   

   

   
   

5. Click Save to save your changes.

Step 4 – Monitor Inventory

1. On the navbar, expand Identity Lifecycle and select Account Inbox.
   
   The Account Inbox page appears. This page provides tabbed views of all information related to processing new user accounts discovered in a connected account store during inventory. An explanation of these tabs follows.
   

   

   • All — This tab displays a grid view of all user accounts and the status of those accounts in relation to the Account Inbox.

   • Dashboard — This tab provides a quick summary of account inbox activity.

   • Orphans — This tab displays a grid view of all user accounts without an EmpowerID Person.