Single Sign On Service for clean website

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/27/12 7:19 AM, "Ahsan Jewel" <ahsanj80 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello, we have some 4-5 websites in our school, all of them are accessed
>through username/password. Now, if I want to use a Shibboleth IdP for
>establishing Single Sign On for these websites, what actually I need to
>do?

Well, roughly, you have to deploy an IdP somewhere (if you mean that
you're running the IdP), install an SP on each server hosting a site,
configure them, and exchange SAML metadata between them.

And then you have to modify the applications to stop doing authentication.
That part is not something that can be described fully without knowing
what they are or what they do. There could be large changes or minimal
ones. There are session management considerations in some cases. It just
depends.

-- Scott