On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Isuru Haththotuwa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Johann,
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Johann Nallathamby <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Dulanja Liyanage <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> SPs and IdPs represent real world entities. For example, if the IdP
>>> supports multiple authentication mechanisms, we should represent it in a
>>> single IdP config with multiple authenticators. Else, you will have to
>>> duplicate metadata of that IdP.
>>>
>> We were trying to find why someone would need to configure multiple
>> protocols for an IDP. Ideally protocol should be independent from what user
>> is going to communicate with the IDP. Even though IDP represents a real
>> world entity, in the real world one SP should not need to use multiple
>> protocols when communicating with one IDP.
>>
> Wouldn't there be valid usecases where one authenticator uses one protocol
> for an IDP, an another authenticator uses a different protocol for the same
> IDP? In such a case, support for multiple outbound authenticators for a
> single IDP will reduce the coupling between SPs and IDPs further IMHO.
>

​It is not clear what you are trying to say. Actually one SP use one
outbound authenticator in a given time.
Can you explain little more about your thought, may be valid use case.
Sorry for asking again, because i couldn't realize what you suggested.



>
>>> On 7 Feb 2017 2:19 p.m., "Darshana Gunawardana" <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Harsha,
>>>
>>> It make sense to have that in some cases like "SAML 2.0 bearer grant" in
>>> OAuth flow. Same SP application which used Identity Server with SAML 2.0
>>> web sso (which requires inbound saml config) also need to get access tokens
>>> (which requires inbound oauth config).
>>>
>>>
>> This seems to be valid as of the current architecture we have in IS
>> 5.3.0, because we don't treat OAuth2 specially, but we consider that also
>> as an inbound authenticator, although OAuth2 is not an authentication
>> protocol.
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Harsha Thirimanna <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> In current IS 5.3.0 design, we can configure multiple inbound
>>>> authenticator for one SP and multiple outbound authenticator for one IDP.
>>>> Since we are representing one application from one SP, do we need to allow
>>>> to create multiple inbound authenticator for one SP ?
>>>> And same as what would be the advantages of having multiple outbound
>>>> authenticator for one IDP config ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WDYT ?
>>>>
>>>> *Harsha Thirimanna*
>>>> *Associate Tech Lead | WSO2*
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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