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Likewise Overview

Reduce the Challenges and Costs of Running your Mixed Network

Likewise Enterprise is an enterprise software solution that improves management and interoperability of Windows®, Linux®, UNIX®, and Macintosh® systems to considerably reduce IT costs and enhance security. Using familiar Windows-based tools, system administrators can easily and seamlessly integrate non-Windows systems with Microsoft® Active Directory.

Likewise Enterprise Key Benefits

  • Simplify your network
  • Increase operational efficiency
  • Improve network security with granular access control
  • Improve system configuration
  • Centralize administration and reduce costs
  • Enable and demonstrate regulatory compliance
  • Enforce consistent security policies across the enterprise

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Likewise Open is a free, open source application that joins Linux, Unix, and Mac machines to Microsoft Active Directory and securely authenticates users with their domain credentials.

Likewise Open Key Features

  • Joins non-Windows systems to Active Directory domains in a single step from the command line or from a GUI
  • Authenticates users with a single user name and password on both Windows and non-Windows
  • Enforces the same password policies for non-Windows users and Windows users
  • Supports multiple forests with one-way and two-way cross forest trusts
  • Caches credentials in case your domain controller goes down
  • Provides single sign-on for SSH and Putty
  • Uses a robust next-generation authentication engine that supports Kerberos, NTLM, and SPNEGO
  • Involves no Active Directory schema changes

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Likewise-CIFS provides industrial-strength client-side and server-side SMB/CIFS support so Microsoft Windows clients can access folders and files on Linux, Unix, and Mac computers.

Likewise-CIFS Key Features

  • Likewise-CIFS will support SMB1 and SMB2 at the time of launch.
  • Stores the full granularity of Windows access control lists in extended attributes.
  • Checks access rights by using the security descriptor and access token.
  • Implements Windows remote management APIs.
  • Supports arbitrary named pipe RPC servers.




Control access to Linux, Unix, and Mac computers, applications, and resources with the Likewise UID-GID Module.

Likewise UID-GID Key Benefits

  • Control access to Linux, Unix, and Mac computers based on the UID-GID values that you set.
  • Set home directories and login shells in ADUC.
  • Mirror your organizational units with Likewise cells and map Active Directory users and groups to UIDs and GIDs.
  • Administer organizational units for Linux and Unix with Cell Manager, a Likewise MMC snap-in for managing Likewise cells.


Likewise Open

Integrated Secure Authentication

Likewise Open is a free, open source application that joins Linux, Unix, and Mac machines to Microsoft Active Directory and securely authenticates users with their domain credentials.

Likewise Open Features

  • Joins non-Windows systems to Active Directory domains in a single step from the command line or from a GUI
  • Authenticates users with a single user name and password on both Windows and non-Windows
  • Enforces the same password policies for non-Windows users and Windows users
  • Supports multiple forests with one-way and two-way cross forest trusts
  • Caches credentials in case your domain controller goes down
  • Provides single sign-on for SSH and Putty
  • Next-generation authentication engine that supports Kerberos, NTLM, and SPNEGO
  • No schema changes to Active Directory required

The Likewise Administrative Console

  • The Likewise Administrative Console is a free, extensible service for running management applications, or snap-ins, on Mac OS X and a variety of Linux platforms, including SUSE, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu. Key features:
  • An event logging component that stores authentication and security events in an embedded SQLite database.
  • A graphical interface that displays events from more than 118 Linux, Unix, and Mac platforms in a common, unified format to detect and troubleshoot security problems with ease.
  • An event log that supports local and remote access through secure, encrypted protocols.

 

Likewise Enterprise

Experience seamless integration of Linux and UNIX with Microsoft Active Directory

Centralize Authentication of your Mixed Network with Likewise Enterprise

Likewise Enterprise is an enterprise software solution that allows seamless integration of Linux®, UNIX® and Mac systems with Microsoft® Active Directory. Organizations of all sizes running mixed networks and mixed identity management systems (such as non-networked authentication and Network Information System (NIS)) can use Likewise Enterprise to allow UNIX, Linux and other systems/applications to use Microsoft Active Directory for their authentication needs.

You can quickly realize the value of Likewise Enterprise because it is the only solution that allows you to download and deploy to Active Directory with or without schema extensions in less than 5 minutes. Likewise Enterprise will improve the efficiency of your IT staff, strengthen network security and help you comply with regulatory requirements and Sarbanes Oxley.

Easily Manage Active Directory from a Linux or Mac Machine:

Likewise Software has made it possible for Mac, UNIX, and Linux system administrators to manage Active Directory from a Mac or Linux machine. The Likewise Administrative Console is a pluggable framework that provides MMC-like functionality and runs on Mac OS X and any Linux platform.

Features

  • Active Directory- based Authentication and Authorization for Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X
  • Group Policy-Based Management
  • Directory Migration
  • Reporting and Audit
  • Single Sign On for Enterprise Applications

    Group Policy-Based Management

    • Leader in Group Policy support with 50+ policies - including policies for Security, Authentication and Identification, Logon, Display, Message, Logging and Audit, File System, and Tasks.
    • Full Integration with the Group Policy Management Console and Group Policy Object Editor.
    • Enables one to many management of UNIX, Linux and Mac configuration settings.
    • Consistently implement security settings across the enterprise.
    • The only solution that allows you to filter group policies to apply only to specific platforms.

    Directory Migration

    • Import Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X passwd and group files -- typically /etc/passwd and /etc/group -- and automatically map UIDs and GIDs to users and groups defined in Active Directory.
    • Scripting layer and migration tools allow access to data in transparent fashion regardless of how you deploy.
    • Resolve conflicts and ambiguous user names before you commit the changes.
    • Generate a Windows automation script to associate the Unix and Linux UIDs and GIDs with Active Directory users and groups.

    Reporting and Audit

    • Pre-defined reports make it easy to view access privilege for all users, groups, containers, and systems managed with Likewise Enterprise.
    • Permits customization of output, including scoping, filtration, column selection, and data limits.
    • Directly output data to screen, print, or save to HTML, XML, or CSV formats for use in third party reporting tools such as Excel or Crystal Reports.
    • Easily generate a report that displays what settings within group policies are enabled for Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X systems through the Group Policy Management Console.

    Single Sign On for Enterprise Applications

    • Enables single sign-on for any enterprise application that supports Kerberos and LDAP including Samba, Apache, SSH, NFS, WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, SAP, Oracle, MySQL.
    • Built-In support for Apache, SSH, and Samba.