Dear Jon
UKERNA's wireless advisory group has a Bluesocket representative and
uses that are familiar with Bluesocket and may be able to help. I've
copied in Mark Tysom at UKERNA to see if he can pass on your query to
the rep.
Best Regards
James Sankar
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Warbrick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, 21 October 2005 8:28 PM
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Subject: Re: Shibboleth SP for BlueSocket WLAN access products
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Paschoud,J wrote:
> ...
> Does anyone know of a hack for (or, has thought of the right way to
> hack) BlueSocket wireless access controllers so they can act as Shib
SPs
> - instead of what I guess to be a proprietary name/password login,
which
> (for local users) can use the LDAP (or other things) as authentication
> backend.
> ...
I recently discussed with BlueSocket the possibility of integrating our
home-grown authentication system (http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/raven/ - a bit
like PubCookie but different) into the BlueSocket product. The response
was that actually doing so should be easy for them since we have an
Apache
module that does the work, but that the documentation and QA needed to
do
this officially meant that they would only be interested if they were
sure
of sufficient sales as a result.
I'd assume that Shib would be in a similar situation, except that as I
understand it the reference Shib Apache module has requirements on the
way
that its host Apache is built (esp. threading) that BlueSocket's may not
meet.
I didn't investigate 'unofficially' adding support for our system since
the whole point of looking at BlueSocket, rather than just using NoCat,
was the fact that it comes with support.
Jon.
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Jon Warbrick
Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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