MCB SSO not requiring greater authentication methods

Caskey, Paul pcaskey at utsystem.edu
Fri Apr 10 11:39:14 EDT 2015


So, do you think it will ever be possible to specify the authn method in relying-party.xml (i.e. will that bug get fixed?)?



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> Subject: Re: MCB SSO not requiring greater authentication methods
> 
> I don’t think it will work.
> 
> When MCB handles previous session (which it should), the context value it
> has available to determine what to do is from the last successful
> authentication. So if the previous allowed value matches what the user has
> used, then previous session handling takes place and there is never another
> call to the attribute resolver.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> > On Apr 10, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Ho, PeiQuan <PeiQuan.Ho at tufts.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > This is what I'm currently doing.   I'm using a scripted attribute resolver call
> "authContext" that is determine by checking the value of the SP ID and
> another value for the user.  This value is then passed to the MCB as its
> attributeResolverID which I thought would then set the MCB authnContext
> to the one specified by the authContext generated value.  Currently, this
> does work.  It just doesn't work when doing SSO... such as when I first go to
> an SP that the MCB determines to only require password, then go to a
> second SP that the MCB determines requires two-factor, the second SP does
> not force the two-factor step.  Is this do-able with Shib and MCB?  We're
> currently using shib IDP 2.4.1.
> >
> 
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> Paul Hethmon
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> paul.hethmon at clareitysecurity.com
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