Sure, but it depends what you want to set up. My client (a sub-org in a university) had a LDAP server in the background doing something. But they wanted this for other reasons (like a sub-organisation).
On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:19:56 PM UTC+11, tim wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In a recent project we created an authentication and authorization API > that > > ran separately to the main app., and it ended up being my ideal way of > > handling it (for an app that has belong to to an organisation of any > > significant size). This turned out to be a great way of doings things for > > SSO and role clarification (instead of every app inventing its > understanding > > of roles, there was a centralised 'source of truth' for them which client > > apps leveraged). > > > > > Wouldn't LDAP been a good candidate for something like this? > On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:19:56 PM UTC+11, tim wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In a recent project we created an authentication and authorization API > that > > ran separately to the main app., and it ended up being my ideal way of > > handling it (for an app that has belong to to an organisation of any > > significant size). This turned out to be a great way of doings things for > > SSO and role clarification (instead of every app inventing its > understanding > > of roles, there was a centralised 'source of truth' for them which client > > apps leveraged). > > > > > Wouldn't LDAP been a good candidate for something like this? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/2m815dMieTIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
