[Cosign-discuss] Different portal support with one auth server

2008-09-24 Thread arash givchi
Hi, I have different portals for different groups of people in my organization, and I want to bring all of these websites under protection of cosign auth server; But my problem is how to make cosign to redirect everyone to the appropriate portal(not using different auth servers); I don't know if t

Re: [Cosign-discuss] Different portal support with one auth server

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Schober
* arash givchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-24 16:28]: > But my problem is how to make cosign to redirect everyone to the appropriate > portal(not using different auth servers); I don't know if there is any kind > of variable or something else for decision making; They access their respective port

Re: [Cosign-discuss] Different portal support with one auth server

2008-09-24 Thread Mark Montague
The way cosign works is that a user will visit a page on the portal (or web site) that requires authentication, using the portal's already-existing URL. The cosign filter, which is installed on the portal web server, will check with the central cosign servers to see if the user is already au

Re: [Cosign-discuss] Different portal support with one auth server

2008-09-24 Thread Wesley Craig
I'm no expert on portal systems, but it's certainly feasible for components besides cosign filters to successfully interact with cosign. I would hesitate to call it anything as formal as an "API", but the cosign scheme makes these sorts of interactions pretty clear. :wes On 24 Sep 2008, at