IdP Operating System selection best current practice

[Kevin Foote]

On Jan 27, 2014, at 1:23 PM, King, David <dsmk at bu.edu> wrote:
 
Very subjective questions.. You will obviously get two differing camps :-)  

> 1)    What is the best OS for the IdP when authenticating with Active Directory?

The best OS for you IdP is the one you are familiar with maintaining.  This will give you by far the best results in running a robust IdP service.  Any modern OS will allow a Java environment for the IdP to run in. 

Soooo if you are a windows shop then run windows, likewise if you are a linux shop run it on Cent / RHEL .. 

> 2)    What criteria should we use for selecting between supported Operating Systems?

The comfortability of whomever is going to be maintaining the IdP (team wise).

> 3)    Are there any issues we should be aware of when authenticating with Active Directory from RHEL/Centos?

No .. The IdP is doing the connection to AD not the OS and it does the connection just fine. 


The rest is just personal preference .. I prefer linux so I know what is happening and I like the cli tools of the OS :-)


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thanks
 kevin.foote