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NEWSLETTER

ISSUE #21 | April 30, 2024

New Resource: Recipes!

We have been thinking about ways to make our documentation even more helpful than it already is. Today we introduce “Recipes” - instructions for configuring and using the connection of several features within COmanage tools to accomplish a specific goal.

Open Office Hours - May 10 (UPDATED)

Do you have a question about deploying or configuring Registry or Match? Want to get some input on a solution architecture design? Want to hear how your colleagues in the community are solving problems similar to yours? Each month you can bring your topics for discussion to the call. No need to register or spin up a presentation (but feel free if it suits you!); just show up! A short conversation starter kicks off each session to help get the discussion started.

Friday, May 10 at 12:00 PM (America/New York)
(no registration necessary)

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2024 Topic Aperitif: COmanage Registry 5.0 Update

Much of the COmanage Project development team is focused on development toward the release of COmanage Registry 5.0. We will kick off each of the Office Hours in 2024 with a brief update on the latest developments.

Registry Recipe: SSH Public Key Management

Recipes are a new resource type within the COmanage project documentation. They are designed to illustrate how one might combine a group of features in the COmanage tools to accomplish a specific goal or outcome. Through a use case and generous support from CILogon, we introduce our first recipe: SSH Public Key Management!

🥣 Registry Recipe: SSH Public Key Management

CILogon is an integrated identity and access management platform for research collaborations. It combines federated identity management (Shibboleth, InCommon) with collaborative organization management (COmanage Registry). Several research collaborations that use CILogon include researchers who need to use SSH to access their research resources. CILogon advocates for researchers to store and manage their SSH Public Keys in Registry. The system passes these public keys to LDAP where they can be used by other tools for streamlined, secure access management, for example, in Unix cluster access. 

CILogon administrators will benefit from the step-by-step guidance provided by this new recipe. It describes how to use the SSH authenticator and LDAP provisioner plugins to collect public keys from end users and store them in LDAP, and provides examples of how LDAP might be used for dynamic public key management. 

RELEASE: Registry v4.3.3

Maintenance Release w/ Security Advisory

Recommended that all deployments upgrade to this release.

This version contains various bug fixes. Please review the full Registry 4.3.3 Release Announcement for full details and upgrade notes.

A Security Advisory is being posted along with this release.  All deployments should review this Advisory to determine if any action is warranted. There is ALSO an update to a previous Security Advisory located here. Further details are posted to the COmanage Registry Security Advisories page.

COmanage News

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Bug found and squashed. Thanks, Wake Forest University!

As an open-source project, we get extra excited when a bug report is submitted with the code to fix it!. Many thanks to Seth Stein of Wake Forest University who identified an issue with the FileSource plugin. We appreciate their offered code in the form of a pull request that followed the COmanage project contribution guidelines. The fix can be found in the most recent release of Registry, version 4.3.3.

That’s it for this month’s newsletter. We hope to see you during our next open office hours!

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About The COmanage Project

COmanage is an Open Source Project that is focused on streamlining digital lifecycle management for your populations. It consists of two tools: Registry and Match. 

COmanage Registry is an identity registry with flexible enrollment and lifecycle management capabilities that helps you meet your identity management objectives using standardized tools and approaches. It can be used as a central person registry, a guest management system, or a collaboration hub for scholarly collaborations.

COmanage Match performs identity de-duplication in order to help minimize the creation of duplicate accounts for the same individual. It provides a heuristic-based system for matching identity records across multiple authoritative systems of record. Match can be used with Registry or as a standalone product complementary to your other tools.

Learn more about the project and its supporters at https://incommon.org/software/comanage/.

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