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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m sure a more technical answer will be more forthcoming. But…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You can have Shibboleth use a database to lookup user details (username, password, any other information the apps need) but I personally have not used this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We use LDAP, so we have a directory server which is used by most of our systems (e.g. the PC / VLE / eILP).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The in-house app will probably have to be re-engineered to handle what details it gets sent from a Shibboleth IdP, and create accounts based on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You could put the in house webapp behind Apache then it can pass the details it gets from shibboleth to your application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HTH,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> users [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>mike h<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 November 2016 15:31<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> SSO for three Applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I'm new to SAML and SSO and still finding my feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I've been given the task at work to provide SSO across three applications and I'm looking at various options.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">In more detail:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">We have an account on
<a href="http://www.aha.io/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480000252212_6179">http://www.aha.io/</a> and this has an admin panel to configure SSO using SAML.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">We also use Freshdesk
<a href="http://freshdesk.com">http://freshdesk.com</a> and this too can be configured for SSO using SAML..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The third app is a REST based application we've developed using Java and Angular and backed by MongoDB. It is a self contained app
that is deployed with its own built in server. (ie it is not hosted in Tomcat, JBoss etc). Users of the application use name/password to login and the user details are within the MongoDB.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The SSO use case is that users of the REST app can sign on to any of the three applications using their login credentials for the
REST app. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Could you tell me please if Shibboleth is a good fit for this type of problem? If so how should I approach it and typically how
much effort is needed to get up and running?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I am also looking at PicketLink and JBoss too - how does Shibboleth compare to this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Many thanks for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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