<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Jan 5, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Nate Klingenstein <<a href="mailto:ndk@internet2.edu">ndk@internet2.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;" class="">My first question is that related to the fact that we have a server which hosts all of our client systems. As we are only doing 'single sign-on' customisation
for only one specific system (via Shibboleth), I was wondering if anyone has any experience regarding installing the Shibboleth software on a server hosting many systems. We're trying to assess whether it would be better to move this single client system to
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<div class="">It’s totally a matter of deployment preference. You can do whatever matches up with your preferred systems management practices.</div>
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</div><br></blockquote><br></div><div>As Nate indicates, there is no "one model fits all" answer to that. A number of factors might go into your decision:</div><div><br></div><div> - your current load balancing/high availability/clustering model</div><div> - your current set of supported login options, and how the login method does, or does not, correspond to your application session management model</div><div> - how you "trigger"/initiate login now (protect everything, lazy/only as needed, dedicated login handler that initiates an app session, ...)</div><div> - your web server software, how you manage it, etc.</div><div> - what you consider the likelihood of having future systems/clients utilizing Shb/SAML for the service</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--<br>Michael A. Grady<br>Senior IAM Consultant, Unicon, Inc.</div></div></span></div></span></span>
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