Hi Alex,
That's what I've been doing all along, unfortunately :-(. So I guess the
answer to your question is that the problem is still there. Thanks for
looking into this,
-Patricia

Patricia Goldweic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex (Google)
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:13 PM
> To: Google Apps APIs
> Subject: [google-apps-apis] Re: SSO and security
> 
> 
> Hi Brian, Patricia,
> 
> Can you change your hard-coded RelayState from:
> 
> http://mail.google.com/...
> 
> to the actual RelayState which comes with the SAMLRequest?
> 
> To see what this value is, go to the service URL (without signing in
> first):
> 
> http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com
> 
> You'll be redirected to your SSO Sigin-in URL with the 
> SAMLRequest and RelayState parameters.
> 
> Take the RelayState parameter, URL-decode it, and replace 
> your current RelayState in the ACS URL form with this value.
> 
> Let me know if you still have this problem.  Thanks.
> 
> -alex
> 
> On Oct 20, 5:30 am, "Julian (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks again for bringing this up, we keep track of this 
> requests to 
> > improve our products. Unfortunately there isn't a solution 
> for a user 
> > walking away with the session/browser open, at the moment 
> the best is 
> > to advise users to close the session/browser.
> >
> > Julian
> >
> > On Oct 17, 1:57 pm, "Patricia Goldweic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Everybody is experiencing the same issue, and I second 
> your request 
> > > to Google for some upgrade to their end that includes a 
> 'logout' of 
> > > some kind (clearing cookies as you suggest) before the 
> redirection 
> > > to the partner SSO happens. This would really help, and not just 
> > > with respect to security. For example, in our case, our 
> Google Apps 
> > > integration allows users to log in consecutively to different 
> > > accounts to share information with different university 
> courses, so we have the same kind of problem as you have.
> > > -Patricia
> >
> > > Patricia Goldweic
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected] 
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian
> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:25 PM
> > > > To: Google Apps APIs
> > > > Subject: [google-apps-apis] SSO and security
> >
> > > > Hi.
> >
> > > > We're experiencing the same issue as noted here 
> > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis/msg/2a010bc76c
> > > > 267588?pli=1.
> >
> > > > Simply stated, if a user browses away from their SSO 
> authenticated 
> > > > mail session and walks away from the computer, the next 
> person to 
> > > > sign on will get the previous users'  email.
> >
> > > > The responses I've seen so far haven't really addresses 
> the issue, 
> > > > since most require the user to click the sign out link in some 
> > > > way.
> > > > It's inevitable that some will forget and we need something to 
> > > > mitigate the resulting security problems.
> >
> > > > Would it be possible for Google to add a bit of code on 
> their end, 
> > > > perhaps checking a parameter requesting a session clear?
> > > > Something likehttp://www.google.com/a/abc.com/?clearstate
> > > > and kill the session cookies before issuing a redirect 
> to our SSO? 
> > > > page.
> >
> > > > TIA
> >
> > > > -brian
> > 



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