IdP authenticate against a REST API

[Aaron Howell]

We are investigating how to convert a department services to SAML - one implication is that it needs to support some local accounts that we may not be able to on-board into our Identity system due to licensing restrictions.

A few solutions are being proposed - however one of the solutions involves spinning up a new IdP and using a DS for the few systems where they still authenticate these other users.

The users are stored in a propriety system - and I am looking how to authenticate them. One option which would not require much change on the users behalf is that I can validate a user through a REST API with their existing username and password.

So I am wanting to confirm if this was currently possible in the IdP? (I presume not - but double checking)

If not, I suppose there might be a JAAS option to look into. And if not that, can potentially do something in house.

Cheers
Aaron

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