dropbox SAML SSO and shib?

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> On 4/11/13 4:00 AM, "caleb racey" <caleb.racey at newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>Dropbox has announced it is supporting SSO via SAML
>>https://www.dropboxatwork.com/2013/04/coming-soon-to-a-dropbox-for-busines
>>s-near-you-single-sign-on-sso/    unfortunately the article is short on
>>technical detail.
>>
>>Does anyone know if  this is likely to work with vanilla shib?   Does it
>>require ECP support?
>
> I doubt very much it uses ECP, it will most likely be browser-based.

I hope you're right but note that Dropbox requires authentication for
at least two actions: 1) logging into the web site, and 2) authorizing
a desktop sync client. It will be interesting to see how they handle
the latter going forward.

Tom