Thanks, Adam.  I'll take a look at that issue, and the patch.

-- Scott

aj...@virginia.edu wrote:
> Scott--
> 
> We're using the functionality advertised here:
> 
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FCR30/Authentication+and+User+Attributes
> 
> and having a good deal of success. Be advised, however, that current Fedora 
> code includes a bug as detailed here:
> 
> https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/FCREPO-847
> 
> for which Bill Niebel and I have provided a patch (included in that same JIRA 
> issue). With that bug patched, we've had no difficulty writing XACML policies 
> against user attributes provided in Shibboleth HTTP-headers.
> 
> I simply haven't been able to reckon on any way to integrate our instance of 
> Shibboleth (which uses PubCookie for authn) and FeSL, but that's to do with 
> our instance. In general, though, it's not clear to me that there is a 
> graceful way of setting up JAAS with Shibboleth as a provider.
> 
> ---
> A. Soroka
> Digital Research and Scholarship R & D and Online Library Environment
> the University of Virginia Library
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Scott Prater wrote:
> 
>> Adam, Chris --
>>
>> We also plan to start some experimenting with linking Shibboleth to 
>> Fedora soon.  We haven't looked at FeSL yet, but I'd be interested in 
>> hearing others' experiences on this front.
>>
>> -- Scott
>>
>> aj...@virginia.edu wrote:
>>> Thanks, Chris--
>>>
>>> In fact, we have moved on to using Shibboleth authn with attributes (with 
>>> PubCookie-supported authn) for our purposes, which means that not only are 
>>> we not going to try to leverage the PubCookie code, but we will not be 
>>> using FeSL authn. It's not at all clear to me how to usefully connect 
>>> Shibboleth and JAAS to support FeSL authn. We would like to use FeSL authz. 
>>> We aren't finding it stable enough yet for our needs this spring, but we 
>>> look forward to using it soon.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> A. Soroka
>>> Digital Research and Scholarship R & D and Online Library Environment
>>> the University of Virginia Library
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Chris Wilper wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:51 PM,  <aj...@virginia.edu> wrote:
>>>>> In org.fcrepo.server.security.servletfilters.pubcookie, I find a servlet 
>>>>> filter that is apparently designed to offer non-FeSL PubCookie 
>>>>> authentication. I don't, however, find any mention of this code in the 
>>>>> documentation.
>>>> This was developed a long time ago and I could be wrong, but I don't
>>>> think it ever worked.  I expect it will be cleaned up as part of the
>>>> eventual migration to FeSL's AuthN.
>>>>
>>>>> I'm wondering if this is supported functionality, if anyone is using it, 
>>>>> and if there is any documentation about how to use it? Our local 
>>>>> PubCookie service is our SSO, and we'd like to authenticate against it 
>>>>> and retrieve attributes for authorization from the Shibboleth service 
>>>>> associated with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this configuration supported by 
>>>>> org.fcrepo.server.security.servletfilters.pubcookie, or can 
>>>>> org.fcrepo.server.security.servletfilters.pubcookie be leveraged as the 
>>>>> authentication step in this design?
>>>> I'm not really familiar with pubcookie (or that code) myself, so I
>>>> can't say whether it can be leveraged for what you want it to do.  But
>>>> I'd definitely advise looking for newer, proven-working code out
>>>> there, and considering plugging it in the new way, via FeSL authN, if
>>>> you do.
>>>>
>>>> - Chris
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