Auto-login user programatically?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/25/13 9:57 AM, "Byte Flinger" <byteflinger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Yes, although that is not the main issue I believe, if we take an LDAP
>server as an example it would be simple to login the user programatically
>by calling the Unsolicited SSO with the required parameters. The issue
>would be that since the login was done programatically on server side,
>the user browser never sets any cookie which, to my understanding, is
>required by Shibboleth (Though it may be a misconception on my part and
>is only required for the default UserPassword loginhandler).

You can't get the IdP to consider somebody logged in unless you configure
a login handler. Which one you use and how it works is up to you, but you
can't not have one.

-- Scott