Steve McCullar is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Okta, where he specializes in creative solutions for customer problems. Steve has been in the field of Identity and Access Management since before the time it was known by that name. Steve also has a long history in secure server access and Linux. Before Okta, Steve worked for many years as an Advisor at CA Technologies, for three startups in the 1990s, and for EDS before that time.
A common configuration for on-premises Linux servers includes using an LDAP directory to manage identities and for user authentication. This approach has been a de-facto standard and best practice for more than a decade. But LDAP directories have posed challenges to administrators and security professionals. There is a better way to manage Linux…
