[OTDev] Update Auth&Auth

Nina Jeliazkova nina at acad.bg
Tue Mar 23 15:03:22 CET 2010



Andreas Maunz wrote:
> Hi Pantelis,
>
> yes, it is possible.
>
> Here you can find a condensed list of OpenSSO Services as of 10/2009:
> http://blogs.sun.com/docteger/entry/opensso_and_rest
> (also given in the document I sent around).
>
> And this is the specific link to "Display Identity Data":
> http://blogs.sun.com/docteger/entry/opensso_and_rest#attributes
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
>   

Just my two cents:

There should be additional information as well (not only user names, but
the domain  - e.g. the OpenSSO service URI).

Regards,
Nina
> chung wrote on 03/23/2010 02:44 PM:
>   
>> Hi Andreas,
>>    There is something that is not yet very clear to me and I think it
>> would be of interest for other developers as well. A user logs in and
>> gets a token which uses to be identified by the various services in
>> OpenTox. Suppose that a user provides its token to a model creation
>> service. The created model should have a reference to the user that
>> created it (something like ot:createdBy={userName}) which means that
>> services need to know the username behind the token . Will it be
>> possible to retrieve the username corresponding to a given token?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Pantelis
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:43 +0100, Andreas Maunz wrote:
>>     
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> please find attached an updated version of the authentication and
>>> authorization approach based on OpenSSO.
>>>
>>> Micha is currently working on migrating OpenTox website users and groups
>>> into a standalone OpenDS server (LDAP), which is intended to serve as
>>> the common backend for both Plone and OpenSSO. This way, we can
>>> hopefully use all existing PLONE group configurations for access
>>> policies in OpenSSO live!
>>>
>>> Things look quite promising up to now. A drawback is currently the lack
>>> of a REST interface for mamnaging policies. Here is an overview over the
>>> REST interface implemented in OpenSSO as of 10/2009:
>>> http://blogs.sun.com/docteger/entry/opensso_and_rest
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Andreas
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>>     
>
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