FileMaker and SHib ... ?

[Matt MacAdam]

I don't remember exactly.  From a cursory re-examination of the docs,
I suspect my idea was to write a C# app that uses the ASP.NET server
variables to get Shib attributes and do authorization, and then more
or less write your own UI to display the data from the Filemaker API.
A brute force solution, to be sure.

There may be a more elegant solution, perhaps some way to do a C#
wrapper around the existing API.  Sorry I don't have more.

Matt
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Matt MacAdam
Software Engineer
UW Information Technology
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Steven Carmody
<steven_carmody at brown.edu> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> thanks very much for this info !
>
> I easily found those two documents, but didn't easily find any text that
> seemed relevant to changing to a different authentication scheme. Customer
> Web Publishing seems to primarily discuss how to write PHP to query FM, and
> how to get FM to export XML.
>
> Getting Started mentions that FM installs its own instance of apache on OS
> X, and talks about how to avoid conflicts of you're already using the apache
> that comes with the OS for other purposes.
>
> There is mention of using apache's Basic AUthn for some purposes. That makes
> me hopeful -- that apache might be reconfigured to use Shib plugins.
>
> Any chance you might remember any of the other detail about how you thought
> you might get this to work ?
>
>
> On 8/28/17 2:01 PM, Matt MacAdam wrote:
>>
>> Steven,
>>
>> We had a request for this about a year ago.  Our customer ended up
>> using Microsoft AD authentication with Filemaker Go.  Here are the
>> notes I made when we were discussing Shib auth, for what it's worth:
>>
>> "Had conference call with vendor. Received documents about configuring
>> 'external authentication' with FileMaker. Customer thinks it's not
>> really feasible to use Shibboleth in his configuration given
>> development resources (he would rather not do custom web publishing
>> with FileMaker Server directly). Instead, he would like to use
>> FileMaker Go and have users sign in with their UW NetID credentials.
>> This can be integrated with Active Directory or Apple's OpenDirectory
>> per Customer and the docs linked in notes. Pending discussion on
>> feasibility.  "
>>
>> (the links were to PDFs for "Filemaker Server Customer Web Publishing"
>> and "Filemaker Server Getting Started"--let me know if you want these
>> and I can email directly)
>>
>> I don't recall what the custom web publishing development with
>> FileMaker Server involved, but apparently I thought it would be
>> possible to make this work with Shib.
>>
>> -----
>> Matt MacAdam
>> Software Engineer
>> UW Information Technology
>> 206-616-9842
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Steven Carmody
>> <steven_carmody at brown.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> HI,
>>>
>>> please ... no hooting, hollering, or laughing.  ;-)
>>>
>>> We actually have an interesting local project that really wants to use
>>> FileMaker Server; they have partners at other US campuses, and in Europe.
>>> I'm sometimes a bit crazy, but I'd love to make this work with SHib.
>>> Think
>>> of the fun with GDPR !
>>>
>>> The doc says you can turn on "external authentication" in the FM server.
>>> When you do this FM seems to begin using apache (if the server is running
>>> on
>>> OS X) or IIS (if the server is running Windows).
>>>
>>> Has anyone ever tried going down the FileMaker Shib route ? Any
>>> possibilities ?
>>>
>>> thanks very much !
>>>
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