[horde] Shibboleth Authentication module

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Cassio Nishiguchi <cassio at protectnetwork.org>:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have developed a simple authentication module for Horde to be used with a
>> Shibboleth deployment.  It basically implements the transparent
>> authentication function and retrieves the username from the HTTP header set
>> by the Shibboleth SP.  More information and source code can be found here:
>> http://www.protectnetwork.org/horde.html
>> Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
>
> Never heared of Shibboleth before. Can you explain briefly what it is,
> how it works, and who it uses?

The University of Texas at Austin is moving to it for external authentication
interfaces (but using something else for internal authentication, and of
course making the two interoperate, etc).

Other than that, I don't know much about it, but I will have to probably
in a few months.

> And do you want the driver to be integrated into the official Horde
> distribution?

Would be cool for me at least, since this is coming to my place of work...

> Jan.

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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