Password synchronization tool

Hi Tom

>Do you know of a password synchronization tool, that has the
>possibility to synchronize passwords between Windows NT
>4.0/2000, AS/400, Oracle and, if possible, Unix?

I've only seen one serious attempt at a password synch tool with
scope as broad as that. That was an in-house tool developed for
the Australian Bureau of Statistics, back in 1994. A couple of
friends of mine worked on it. I helped out a little with the
Oracle side (we did it via SQL*Plus running on unix as I recall)
and could have helped (but wasn't called in for) the mainframe
(in this case Fujitsu, equivalent to the IBM 360 series)
screen-scraping.

...You'll probably run into the same thing we did: while there
*are* tools out there for synchronizing passwords, they won't
handle your specific set-up (like, for example, your mainframe
password changing screens might not be exactly the ones the tool
expects), and you'll almost certainly need to have someone write
custom code for chaning some passwords. Changing passwords across
multiple domains is often a pain. An issue we never resolved was:
what happens if one of the domains (say, an Oracle database, or a
unix workstation) is *down* when you change the password.

>Preferably this tool would be distributed by a company in Europe.

I wish you luck finding a tool that meets your needs.

All the best,
James Barbetti