[Catalyst] Catalyst and Shibboleth authentication

[Carl Vincent]

Hi Kirby,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kirby Krueger [mailto:kirbykr at u.washington.edu]
>Sent: 14 March 2008 19:01
>To: catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk
>Subject: [Catalyst] Catalyst and Shibboleth authentication
>


>One thing that Catalyst seems to do well is have a good mechanism for
>plugging in standard approaches to things.  Here at the University of
>Washington, we use a project called 'Shibboleth' for authentication:
>http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
>
>Has anyone worked with this in conjunction with Catalyst yet?  I
>didn't see anything in Authentication::Credential::* yet, and it seems
>like that would be where it would go.
>
>If not, I suppose I'll have to write it, and this seems like an
>obvious candidate to give back.  (One plus of working for a
>University, they really don't mind the whole Open Source thing!)  Any
>tips beyond 'read a few other Authentication::Credential modules and
>stick to the same standards' would be appreciated.  (But I'm still
>hoping someone else already has done it and just didn't think anyone
>else would care.)


This is on my to-do list too - we're adopting this in UK Universities
too. I've not had chance to look at tying it up with Catalyst Auth yet
but will be in a few weeks. It would be good to compare notes on this.

Cheers

Carl


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