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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks a lot Robert!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I definitely prefer using Shib rather than CAS. Will forward this to our Cognos people to see if they think it’s doable on their end.<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">Niva<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> users [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Bradley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 6, 2018 6:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Cognos SSO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On 06/02/2018 17:55, Niva Agmon wrote:<br>
> Hello, > > Does anyone have experience setting up SSO with Cognos? We're trying > to setup cas protocol SSO with apache, but I don't think Cognos is > seeing the Remote_user that is being released through Apache, and > it's not clear what it's looking for.
> > Cognos-analyticsv11.7 Shib v3.3.1 > > Any information/tip will be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, Niva
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Resurrecting a response I started to write a year ago when Sheffield asked about Cognos and SSO but never got around to completing*...<br>
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It's been a while since I did this, but I shall see how much I remember.<br>
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The setup we used here in Oxford had Cognos, Shibboleth and IIS running on Windows<br>
Server. The Shibboleth part was straightforward enough, in that the<br>
Shibboleth SP software was used to protect the Cognos "application" (URL<br>
path) in IIS. A Cognos LDAP provider was then set up and set to use<br>
REMOTE_USER, as per:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.10.2.2.doc/t_stp_sso_active_drctry_remote_user.html">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.10.2.2.doc/t_stp_sso_active_drctry_remote_user.html</a><br>
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For the authorization and user management portion, Cognos has to use an<br>
LDAP directory to store user information. This is configured in a<br>
similar way to:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.10.2.2.doc/t_active_dir_mapping_with_ldap.html#Active_Dir_mapping_with_LDAP">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.2/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.10.2.2.doc/t_active_dir_mapping_with_ldap.html#Active_Dir_mapping_with_LDAP</a><br>
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This LDAP directory must contain *accounts* as opposed to *people*, otherwise bad things happen - namely Cognos picking the first username returned in the LDAP search and requiring that in the REMOTE_USER variable. You probably need to set up a certificate
store for Cognos using the NSS certificate store tools (libnss3-tools on Debian; your distro/OS may vary) so Cognos can verify the LDAPS SSL certificate.<br>
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In our case, we use OpenLDAP (running on Linux) as our authorization<br>
directory, so the actual LDAP query and attributes are somewhat<br>
different to an Active Directory setup, but the basic principle is the same. It won't apply for your use case, but for IIS, I seem to<br>
recall having to use HTTP_REMOTE_USER for the substitution variable in Cognos as opposed to REMOTE_USER.<br>
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* If nomit is lurking here, please accept my apologies for the lost/very delayed response!<br>
<br>
- -- <br>
Dr Robert Bradley<br>
Identity and Access Management Team, IT Services, University of Oxford<br>
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