Custom Remote User Handler

[Christopher Bland]

Hi Chad,

I am not sure if your misunderstanding me or I'm misunderstanding you 
but let me rephrase my question.  Can the REMOTE_USER servlet be 
configured to support/authenticate for more than one URL?

-Chris

On 3/6/12 10:32 AM, Chad La Joie wrote:
> You can change path, and it's documented on the website how you do
> that.  I still don't understand *why* you think you need to do that,
> however.  Changing the path in no way prevents some other SPs from
> using that mechanism, nor does it restrict the users who can
> authenticate via the mechanism.
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 09:41, Christopher Bland<chris at fdu.edu>  wrote:
>> Hi Chad,
>>
>> After thinking about this, after my post I guess what I am really asking
>> is can REMOTE_USER be configured to support multiple protectedServletPath
>> statements.  My reason for wanting to have a seperate path is the
>> authentication method I am going to deploy is for a subset of our users and
>> as we Shibbolize other apps in the future I would like to keep the
>> possibility of using REMOTE_USER as an option verses having
>> /idp/Authn/RemoteUser dedicated to a mechanism that does not service our
>> entire community
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>> On 3/6/12 6:31 AM, Chad La Joie wrote:
>>
>> If all you want is the remote user login handler why don't you just
>> use that one?  What do you think renaming the URL is going to get you?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 20:59, Christopher Bland<chris at fdu.edu>  wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am in the process of trying to implement a dedicated login handler for
>> GoogleApps authentication.  I plan on having my GoogleApps login based on
>> REMOTE_USER.  Idealy I would like to create /idp/Authn/GoogleApps so that
>> I
>> can leave the default REMOTE_USER (/idp/Authn/RemoteUser) available for
>> future use.  Going through the archives I have seen a couple of ways of
>> doing this.   One thread suggested using remote user filters.  Another
>> says
>> to create a custom handler jar in tomcat.  I don't think I need to write a
>> handler because what I want is have the same functionality as REMOTE_USER,
>> plus my java is not that great.  Is what I want to do possible without
>> writing a custom handler?
>>
>> -Chris
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