or there is another way that in my application i use google api to
also create the user account so that i dont have to manually add the
account again in google?

On Dec 24, 2:46 pm, ByteCode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks,
> so that means i have to add the account two times , 1st in google and
> then in my application?
>
> Ryan Shelley wrote:
> > Yes, that's the possibility - and actually, that's usually how most test
> > implementations work.  The idea is that Google will delegate authentication
> > to you, so it's your responsibility to ensure that the user is properly
> > authenticated to your network.  If there's a flaw in your application that
> > allows a user to authenticate as someone else, then there's the potential
> > that an individual could access another user's mailbox.  However, this
> > "flaw" exists in most (if not all) SSO implementations.  In any SSO
> > infrastructure, not just SAML, you should never capture the password from
> > the user, store it, and pass it on to other resources.  Instead, you
> > authenticate the user and generate a token that validates the user, then
> > pass the token around to resources that trust that token, such as Google.
>
> > If you don't want to create your own SSO infrastructure, you can use an
> > existing SSO implementation such as CAS 
> > (http://www.ja-sig.org/products/cas/)
> > that is known to integrate with Google (and dozens of other applications),
> > is stable, secure, free (open-source), and very customizable.  Oh, and if it
> > doesn't integrate with your application, and you can modify it's login
> > process, you can integrated it with CAS yourself.
>
> > -Ryan
>
> > On Dec 23, 2007 11:55 AM, ByteCode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > HI,
> > > i have a question regarding sso , how does google know that the user
> > > has a valid password? cuz i dont see any password submitted back to
> > > google in saml response, in other words i may create a Login method
> > > which always return the username which means the users is sucessfully
> > > authenticated and anyone can login by just typing their username on my
> > > sso page?
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