On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Dhananjay Nene <[email protected]>wrote:
> AFAIK while saml2 can help support session management across domains, it is > unlikely to be doing it for you. You can use it for authentication and > combined with a SSO protocol you could allow credentials to be transferred > across various services. > > SAML2 will help you essentially implement cross domain authentication and > transfer of credentials and privileges .. but for that there's tremendous > amount of fine level work that will be required. > > Note: I have used SAML2 in the past and have written code around it .. but > that was long ago and I have no idea about what python-saml2 per se does - > however if it does cross domain session management, it would leave me very > surprised. > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:23 PM, K.Manikandan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > We are trying to provide session management within a big domain, say > > kkk.edu... like, session usage between aaa.kkk.edu and bbb.kkk.edu. We > > came to know that saml2 provides session management for these kind of > > requirements. We are trying to learn about that, but we have found very > > few resources. Can anyone suggest a way to maintain sessions in a better > > way or help us in using python-saml2... > > > > Cheers, > > Manikandan K > > > > Would'nt simple cookies help you here since your domain is the same. SAML is for identity federation and is too big a monster for your use case. Have used SAML recently and AFAIK python-saml works for GoogleApps only. You can use the python binding of lasso library. ( http://lasso.entrouvert.org/) Domain = ".kkk.edu" Best regards, Bhaskar. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
