Login page with login/password and X509 Auth

[Cantor, Scott]

> From what I could find, the order of authentication flows defined in general-
> authn.xml, determines the one that will be used for authentication and the
> corresponding login page is displayed.

That depends on many factors.

> I have tried to invoke the x509 login page from the login.vm but, as expected,
> it loses the context.

I have no idea what that means.

The documentation describes how to do this using the feature called "extended flows", which was added to the password flow. There are a few settings involved.

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/PasswordAuthnConfiguration

-- Scott