[dev] Shibboleth/SSO integration

Martin Fraser mdf at darksnow.net
Thu Apr 5 14:29:18 UTC 2007


There doesn't seem to be an answer to the question below.

I'm running into the same problem with an OpenID consumer, any ideas?

Martin...



Cassio Nishiguchi wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working on developing an authentication module to integrate Horde with 
> Shibboleth (http://shibboleth.internet2.edu), which should work basically 
> like a single-sign-on system - by the time the user gets to Horde, he is 
> already logged in.  Shibboleth can set the username on an HTTP header like 
> REMOTE_USER, so I wrote a little Auth_shib class that supports transparent 
> authentication and gets the username from the header.  However, my problem is 
> having this work with IMP.  It seems that IMP requires a password to 
> authenticate the user, which Shibboleth doesn't provide.  Is there any good 
> way to get around that requirement?  Has anyone else deployed Horde/IMP 
> behind an SSO system?  If so, how did you get the IMP login to work?
> Any help is appreciated,
> 
> Cassio
> 
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