Google Apps with shibb ECP

Tom Scavo trscavo at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 13:11:47 EDT 2014


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Rob Gorrell <rwgorrel at uncg.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm curious how Google schools deploying shibb for an SSO deal with the
> mobile device issue since accessing email on handheld devices has become a
> fundamental expectation... do most still send your passwords to Google for
> local auth in conjunction with SSO for the web components as we are, or is
> there a better approach?

Integrating Gmail with an iOS device (at least) requires an
application-specific password (which is a precise Google term). It
doesn't have anything to do with Google Apps for Education (if that's
what you mean by "Google school").

Tom


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