I think you can use SAML bearer grant here and use the access token to
access APIs

Thanks,
Malithi

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Ushani Balasooriya <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Appreciate your response.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Ushani Balasooriya <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi IAM team,
>>
>> As a part of my third party web application implementation to add users
>> and roles I would like to try if the logged in admin user can perform the
>> relevant activity within the app.
>>
>> In order to test Login in to the web app I will be using SAML Post
>> binding and as well as the Redirect binding.
>>
>> When I use the Post binding, I can capture the user name and password and
>> generate Basic authentication token retrieving it from the servlet request.
>>
>> My question is,
>>
>> 1. If I use redirect binding, since the IDP can be any application like
>> wso2 IS or Facebook or salesforce etc *(a)* is it a valid use case to
>> use the logged in user admin's credentials to generate auth token?
>>
>> *(b)* Or should I hard code one particular admin user's credentials or
>> auth token which is configured as admin for the thirdparty web app to
>> perform the relevant activities?
>>
>> 2. If *(a) *is valid, how can I retrieve it from the session. I can
>> retrieve the username from the SAML2SSO session, but my question is how to
>> retrieve the password to generate auth token?
>>
>> Appreciate your response.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> *Ushani Balasooriya*
>> Associate Technical Lead - EE;
>> WSO2 Inc; http://www.wso2.com/.
>> Mobile; +94772636796
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *Ushani Balasooriya*
> Associate Technical Lead - EE;
> WSO2 Inc; http://www.wso2.com/.
> Mobile; +94772636796
>
>


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*Malithi Edirisinghe*
Associate Technical Lead
WSO2 Inc.

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