<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hi all,</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
I'm writing to describe and request comments about some extensions to Shibboleth auth methods we've been working on.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
The three extensions are:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><ol><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>An extension to permit the authentication of non web-based applications.</b><br>
To achieve this result we have developed some library to permit the authentication of non web-based application.<br>These libraries are written for Java and Pyhton and use the Basic Authentication login handler of Shibboleth.<br>
<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Integration of Shibboleth as mean of authentication for Linux users.</b><br>We have developed a PAM and a NSS module to permit linux boxes to authenticate users via Shibboleth by requesting username+password and using the Basic Authentication login module.<br>
<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>An extension to permit the authentication with S3 authentication schemes.</b><br>We have developed a specific login handler to implement the authentication mechanisms of the Amazon S3 protocol.</li>
</ol><div>All the code written is available on github at this link:</div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://github.com/biancini/Shibboleth-Authentication" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://github.com/biancini/Shibboleth-Authentication</a></div>
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We would really appreciate feedback on the work done in order to understand with the community if the direction taken is good or if some review may be suggested.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Thanks and regards, </div>