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OpenIdentityPlatform
OpenAM
Java2019–2021
OpenIdentityPlatform / OpenAM

OpenAM

OpenAM is an open-source access management solution for identity authentication, authorization, and federation. It provides single sign-on, adaptive authentication, and centralized policy control, enabling secure access to web, mobile, and cloud applications

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

OpenAM is an open-source access management solution for identity authentication, authorization, and federation. It provides single sign-on, adaptive authentication, and centralized policy control, enabling secure access to web, mobile, and cloud applications

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Hi Bron Really appreciate you noticing my comment and responding. I really love your company for its values (and it doesn't hurt that you have the best webmail interface I've…

alberth used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-05-06 08:04:34 UTC to 2021-06-25 15:29:38 UTC.

012019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
alberth·Jun 25, 2021Recommendation phrase
Hi Bron Really appreciate you noticing my comment and responding. I really love your company for its values (and it doesn't hurt that you have the best webmail interface I've ever used ... and I've used them all). Essentially, I have a small company of 11 employees. All remote. We have no on-premise infrastructure, cloud for everything. The vast majority of my team use: Github, Zendesk, Zoom, and Slack daily. Whenever I hire a new employee, without SSO (and identity management), I have setup a multiple account credentials just for that single employee (and off boarding employees to deactivate access is a whole bigger issue). It's not uncommon that an employee of mine might have 8-10 different username and passwords for all the various systems they use daily. Because of differing username or password retention policies, the usernames might
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be different and/or the passwords become out of synch because one provider is on a 90 day password change when another is on a 60 day password change. It's a mess and I'm sure people have sticky notes with their username/password written down just to keep up with all of their various username/passwords. By having SSO/IdP provided by our email provider, I can eliminate all of these problems. Note: I'm not saying for you to accept SSO from a 3rd party - I'm suggesting that Fastmail be the Identity Provider (IdP) for my employees so that they can use their Fastmail (my domain) account with Github/Slack/Zendesk/etc. Here's some SSO documentation from common 3rd party services we use. Again, thanks so much for considering this. I would LOVE it if you became an IdP/SSO provider. Happy to answer any more questions. EDIT: I should mention that I've looked into Okta in the past but for sites that don't support SSO, what Okta does is essentially a formfill/Lastpass like feature. Which kind of makes me uncomfortable. But if Fastmail allow SSO, Okta becomes more appealing (though not required) EDIT2: this might be more heavy weight that you're looking for but I know at one time the gold standard for open source SSO offerings is OpenAM (it's the forked SSO offering that was from Sun back in the day and Sun at the time was the IAM leader). https://github.com/OpenIdentityPlatform/OpenAM/ [1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/a... [2] https://slack.com/help/articles/203772216-SAML-single-sign-o... [3] https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203663826-Sing...
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