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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Folks:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m attempting to use an external auth engine on my idp. I have a service that uses voice to authenticate a user, and it is activate via a call to a restful web interface.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have followed the instructions found here: <a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPAuthExternal">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPAuthExternal</a>, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a class, in a jar file, placed in the idp project’s WEB-INF/lib directory. This class is patterned after the UserPasswordLoginHandler class in order to get the interface to the AuthEngine right..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have modified the idp project’s web.xml file to include a definition for the servlet, based on that class.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have modified my handler.xml file to use a LoginHandler definition that refers to the URL for this servlet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When this is all assembled and the servers restarted, I always get to the UsernamePassword login (if there’s no active SSO session still in effect).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I suspect that I need to make some kind of addition or mod to the information in the JAAS configuration file, login.config, but the instructions on this page don’t suggest that.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve examined the community-contributed examples for x509 auth and multi-factor auth, and there are enough differences between these projects and my own, that I get more confused about what is expected. These projects delve into modifying the login.config (which is where I got the idea from) and the xsd schema. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please, I could really use some guidance on what the bare necessities are for integrating a new external authentication class into the shibboleth frame work are. I am beginning to think that my only recourse is going to be downloading the source and hacking it locally. This seems like an extremely bad idea, and I can’t believe that trying to use a published extension is really this hard. I MUST be missing something.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for listening to me vent.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin Pardee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:mlp@research.att.com">mlp@research.att.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>