Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-07 Thread andrew mcelroy
also this http://www.slideshare.net/briandavidcampbell/hope-or-hype-a-look-at-the-next-generation-of-identity-standards On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:17 PM, andrew mcelroy wrote: > if you loved SOAP, you'll love SAML. > > some pitfalls with SAML > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iw3xLj9040 > > On br

Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-07 Thread andrew mcelroy
if you loved SOAP, you'll love SAML. some pitfalls with SAML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iw3xLj9040 On breaking SAML http://www.nds.rub.de/research/publications/BreakingSAML/ Granted this has been fixed. It's an overly complex mess. I would be shocked if this "fixes" the standard. To be f

Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-07 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Andrew, Can you expand on the SAML is Bad vibe you are sending out? We have a group who is pushing SAML in general and Shibboleth specifically. We are not far down the path yet so it would be good to know the issues around it. Thanks! Andy On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:48 AM, andrew mcelroy wr

Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-07 Thread andrew mcelroy
sorry that I'm late to this thread, but if you can use Active Directory/LDAP, OAuth, or even OpenID you will be much better off. to butcher a Simpsons quote: " You don't make friends with SAML. You don't make friends with SAML 10X (fade out) " On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Jamie Faris wrote: >

Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-07 Thread Jamie Faris
Here we use CAS [1] for Single Sign On among a few Java web apps. It uses SAML and should be able to work with non-Java apps as well, we just haven't tried yet. It has worked pretty well for us. In our experience Single Sign Out is a much harder problem than Single Sign In. Jamie [1] http://ww

Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-07 Thread Robert Wohlfarth
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Paul Boniol wrote: > There was a push at Vanderbilt to have "single sign on" -- I am guessing > they meant for web apps. I don't know what they are using to do it. (I > still have to enter my password at least three times at present: Windows, > VPN, and web app

Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-07 Thread Kevin Eldridge
Hello, When I was working at BMC, I worked on the Mid-tier second level Help Desk. We would get a lot of calls from military clients who wanted to setup SSO. BMC has a SSO product, but some companies decided to use LDAP to authenticate instead and I had to assist in setting this up. On the BMC co

Re: [nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-06 Thread Paul Boniol
There was a push at Vanderbilt to have "single sign on" -- I am guessing they meant for web apps. I don't know what they are using to do it. (I still have to enter my password at least three times at present: Windows, VPN, and web application.) Perhaps I don't know some secret, but the result s

[nlug] Single sign on and SAML

2014-02-05 Thread Howard White
Anybody got links on references to SAML? We'd like an overview and some thoughts. Comments and war stories appreciated. There has been much clamor in the user community for Single Sign On and much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth in the development and operations communities trying to