Question for folks that use Shibboleth for their PeopleSoft environments.

[Phil Pishioneri]

On 1/20/16 4:24 PM, Ewing, Bill wrote:
>
> We are working with a vendor to host our PeopleSoft environment and
> they raised the following concerns out of the blue. My question is has
> anyone took note of these bullet points in their setup of shibboleth
> with PeopleSoft and would they be something for concern or would have
> a good response to someone raising these? Mainly want to understand
> are these valid concerns or more a factor of support documents not
> being updated or oracle wanting to steer people to their own sso? 
>
> *E-SEC: Does PeopleSoft Support Security Assertion Markup Language
> (SAML)? (Doc ID 623055.1)*
>
> *PeopleTools 8.5x*
>
> SAML support in PeopleTools 8.5x has a very specific and narrow use
> case. ...
>

PeopleSoft's web-based offering can be made to work with Shib SP, as
others have mentioned.

PeopleTools, the Windows-based development application for PeopleSoft,
also authenticates. Here, we ended up using "LDAP auth" for it, and I
think it's in 3-tier mode.

-Phil