I guess I have to look at Open SSO. From what time I did spend looking at Shib 
it didn't appear that any other frameworks would really be necessary. 

Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS


On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Joe Little wrote:

> Sadly I doubt I'd be able to build out a framework by August nor get
> the necessary funding to attend WOWODC, but perhaps the following
> event? Then again, Tim might be further along. I will start a project
> come Sept 1 that will involve OpenSSO for use with Shibboleth for
> Stanford that is not WO related, but I'll then be retrofitting most of
> my WO projects to use that effort shortly afterwards. I think 2011 is
> a safe target date (sadly) for anything from me.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Avendasora
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Now this sounds like a great WOWODC talk, especially by someone that has 
>> just implemented it!
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On Jan 30, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Tim Worman wrote:
>> 
>>> I'll be implementing shib here for at least one of my solutions in the very 
>>> near future. UCLA has migrated to it for all web authentication. I'd 
>>> definitely be interested to see what others have done with it. I'm actually 
>>> really looking forward to getting it done. It should definitely simplify a 
>>> lot of the "log in" process as far as my app is concerned.
>>> 
>>> Tim Worman
>>> UCLA GSE&IS
>>> 
>>> On Jan 30, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Joe Little wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've been wanting to get my but off the ground and build out a WO
>>>> howto on integrating with Shib. OpenSSO might make it easier, but the
>>>> end result is still just getting a REMOTE_USER back that is asserted
>>>> to be ok. Authorization levels won't be know, but most store that
>>>> in-app (internal) or reference indirectly via LDAP or the methods
>>>> noted above.
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Daniel Beatty <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Greetings Xavier, Mike, Cheong, and the Practical guys,
>>>>> There are two features emerging that kind of like for this idea.   One is 
>>>>> the CardDAV notion and second is this "assertion authentication" pattern 
>>>>> that has been implemented by Mobile Access Service, OpenSSO, and 
>>>>> Shibboleth.   A link to the CardDAV reference, even if kept semi-private, 
>>>>> would be sufficient to have a unique reference to any user to be had.   
>>>>> Since both Apple and Amazon seem to be making such a standard available, 
>>>>> then it makes sense for authorization.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If the Java OpenSSO (https://opensso.dev.java.net/) libraries can use the 
>>>>> assertions found in Shibboleth and Mobile Access environments, then this 
>>>>> would be a most useful for a wide spread and deployed WO app.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But, Chuck may already have me on the certified list.   Certified for 
>>>>> what, don't ask.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Later,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Daniel Beatty, ABD
>>>>> Computer Scientist
>>>>> China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 29, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Xavier Destombes wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello Cheong,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Portability isn't a requirement for us, we just need to ensure we're 
>>>>>> using "standard" like if we use an Open Directory it's not a big deal, 
>>>>>> we will eventually only have to redo our read/write method to the ldap, 
>>>>>> but the attributes will be correct.
>>>>>> We also have more and more related services, some come directly from OS 
>>>>>> X Server and some from our apps so being tied to the OS isn't an issue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What you explained also tells me I won't have to deal with security that 
>>>>>> much if I "forward" this to the ldap;)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'll probably have to dig a little bit more on this to understand how 
>>>>>> security will be handled for exemple in the following case:
>>>>>> -someone trying to log to another user: if the ldap banish it for like 
>>>>>> 15mn after the 3rd attempt, I have to make sure the ldap get the correct 
>>>>>> originated IP and not the one from the core web app
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've got quite a bunch of things to clarify before actually do it...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for your inputs,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Xavier
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Coincidentally, I have completed a small framework on this same request 
>>>>>>> from customer.  It is a pure java framework since it is aimed to be 
>>>>>>> portable to any application e.g. Broadvision, WO.  Quite similar that 
>>>>>>> it creates new user password, authenticates user/password and returned 
>>>>>>> error messages.  It also has the user capabilities on the access module 
>>>>>>> level.  I used "Sha-1", and I thought it should be good enough for hash 
>>>>>>> algo.  Is it secured enough? Otherwise, I could change to DES/3DES/ 
>>>>>>> MD4/5 etc.
>>>>>>> Just 2c.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I've got multiple web applications that share some common users.
>>>>>>>>>> I was thinking about creating a core user application to provide  
>>>>>>>>>> the authentication service. Basically I'd like my "client"  
>>>>>>>>>> applications to forward the login and password to this core user  
>>>>>>>>>> app and get either "succeed" or "fail" (maybe a broader range of  
>>>>>>>>>> fail messages).
>>>>>>>>>> I don't really need the entire user to be stored directly in the 
>>>>>>>>>> "client" apps, but I would sometimes need some attributes from the  
>>>>>>>>>> user object.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> My though was:
>>>>>>>>>> -to create a framework to store an abstract class for the user
>>>>>>>>>> -to extend this class within the core user app (basically just make 
>>>>>>>>>> them non-abstract)
>>>>>>>>>> -to use the abstract class in the client apps (and eventually make  
>>>>>>>>>> only a couple attributes non-abstract at that level)
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> That way I could make sure my object is really the same throughout  
>>>>>>>>>> the apps, at least they share a commun set of attributes.
>>>>>>>>>> A client app could request a login for a user and store only a  
>>>>>>>>>> subset of the user.
>>>>>>>>>> 
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