What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for UNIX SSH?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for UNIX SSH in release 9.0.3 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

See Also:

The 9.0.2 release of this guide for information about updates that were new for the 9.0.2 release

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

• Software Updates

  These include updates made to the connector software.

• Documentation-Specific Updates

  These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

See Also:

Oracle Identity Manager Release Notes

Software Updates

This section discusses updates made to this release of the connector software.

Enhancement in the Multilanguage Support Feature

In addition to the three languages supported by the earlier release, this release of the connector supports seven new languages. All the supported languages are listed in the "Multilanguage Support" section.

Support for OC4J

Earlier releases of the connector supported the following application servers:

• JBoss Application Server

• BEA WebLogic

• IBM WebSphere

This release of the connector also supports Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J).

Incorporation of Multilanguage Support

This connector does not support the entry of multibyte characters in some fields. Information about this limitation has been added in the following parts of the guide:

• Chapter 4, "Known Issues"

• Appendix A, "Attribute Mappings Between Oracle Identity Manager and UNIX SSH"

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in this release of the guide:

• In the "Supported Functionality" section on page 1-1, the following function has been added to the list of supported functions:

  Delete User (Reconciliation)

• In Chapter 2, a Note explaining alternatives to changing the value of PermitRootLogin to yes in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file has been added at the required places.

• In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, information about supported shell types for various operating systems has been added.

  This point is also listed as a limitation in the Known Issues list in Chapter 4.

• In the "Specifying Values for the Scheduled Task Attributes" section on page 2-11, changes have been made in the descriptions of the following attributes:

  Passwd Mirror File/User Mirror File

  Shadow Mirror File

• In the "Step 7: Compiling Adapters" section, the instruction about restarting the node has been removed from Step 4 of the procedure to compile adapters.

• Instructions to enable logging are given in the "Enabling Logging" section.

• Appendix A provides information about attribute mappings between Oracle Identity Manager and UNIX SSH.