What is Shib Daemon used for?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/9/12 3:01 PM, "Yaowen Tu" <yaowen.tu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The reason I ask this question is that we are looking to integrate
>SSO/SAML into our product( as an SP ) that will be installed on
>customer's machine. Shib SP is a very good standalone program that we can
>use so we don't need to re-invent the wheel of SP. We
> are a little worried about the need to install the Shib Daemon. It is a
>separate process, and a separate service.

Nevertheless it is required because I don't have the luxury of relying on
language-specific, proprietary session mechanisms.

>I am just looking for some feedback whether other people has encountered
>the same problem before, and how they resolved it? Or is it even
>recommended to use Shib SP in this way?

Well, not by me I suppose. I would prefer that any application be designed
to function with any web server-supplied authentication and let me decide
what to deploy it with.

-- Scott