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<p class="MsoNormal">We have a customer that wants to use Shibboleth for Single Sign On with Apache and JBoss. We need a JAAS LoginModule for JBoss that will process whatever is forwarded by Apache over AJP after Shibboleth is done authenticating and processing
the SAML token. As I understand it, this will just be an HTTP request with remote_user set to the authenticated user value in the form user@domain.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In JBoss we have a web application that uses a custom JAAS LoginModule that expects to find a Principal on the Subject representing the user, if not this LoginModule will fail and ultimately our web app will not be able to log the user
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems like we need a JBoss Login Module that can simply pull remote_user from the request object and create the Subject/Principal from it. It’s a login module that doesn’t do authentication, just trusts the remote_user value (along
the lines of how a Siteminder Identity Asserter would work, but without the encrypted SMSESSION cookie).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does any such login module exist? I found something called SPIE but it’s site is no longer functional?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any insight into how to integrate a backend application server with a front ended secure reverse proxy to achieve single sign-on to our web application deployed in JBoss.<o:p></o:p></p>
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