Ok,

Can someone at least point me to where in the source repository the
source is kept for these portlets:

org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.SSOWebContentPortlet
org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.SSOIFramePortlet

thanks in advance,
aaron

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Aaron Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm finally going to get rolling with trying to tie together some of
> our various web-based service offerings into a single UI under
> jetspeed 2.
>
> So I'm thinking of looking at some of the SSO portlets like
> SSOWebContent or the IFrame one or something similar.
>
> But, I'm seeking some advice because there's a catch.
>
> Here's the deal: we've successfully gotten all of our web application
> service offerings authenticating against a common LDAP server, the
> same LDAP server that we authenticate against for jetspeed..
>
> So, the user names and passwords for accessing these web applications
> will be precisely the same ones as they are for accessing jetspeed.
>
> Thus, I want to be able to setup some kind of SSO portlet that will
> point at a given URL (which I would like to vary a bit dynamically
> based on some user data) and use the user's jetspeed userID and
> password for the back-end SSO authentication.
>
> Now, our passwords are not stored in clear text but rather a SHA based hash.
>
> So, I was thinking that if I modified the authentication mechanism in
> jetspeed to capture the submitted password value at login and store it
> in a session variable, I could then use that value combined with the
> principal's name for the SSO authentication.
>
> Users should not be required to set their userID and password for a
> given remote site themselves, we want to hide all of this from them.
> Nor can they modify the URL we want to send them to but as I said, the
> URL will vary by customer (which is an LDAP/jetspeed group
> incidentally).
>
> Obviously I would have to extend one or more of the SSO portlets to do this.
>
> Anyway, I'm just looking for some general advice before I dive too
> deep into this to see if anyone can think of a simpler way to achieve
> something like this.
>
> cheers,
> aaron
>

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