On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:40 -0400, Tom Scavo wrote:
> On 10/13/05, Rhys Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > One particular area that we're exploring at the moment is the
> > integration of shib with single-sign on products, and with enterprise
> > portal products. So, my question is this: does anyone out there know
> > what (if any) 3rd party vendors have announced Shibboleth support in
> > their single sign-on products and/or enterprise portal products?
> 
> That's a very broad pair of (mostly) unrelated questions. :-)  For
> your first question, Shib is agnostic with respect to any given
> enterprise SSO solution.  Since the local SSO solution sits out in
> front of the Shib Identity Provider, just about anything can be used.
> 
> Your portal question is more difficult.  Can you be more specific
> about your requirements?
> 
> Protecting a portal with a Shib Service Provider is relatively easy
> (Blackboard provides this capability via an authentication module, for
> instance).  Simultaneously protecting back-end resources accessed via
> the portal is a much more difficult problem, however.  Currently, Shib
> doesn't address this so you need to talk to your portal vendor (and
> let me know what you find out! :).

You're entirely correct, maybe I should've made the questions a bit more
specific :-). Apologies, and I shall attempt to do that now...

I'm aware that shib will work with pretty much any SSO solution we could
throw at it - the more specific question I have is whether any SSO
product vendors have specifically announced details of their SSO product
being shib-enabled/compliant (in the same way that, for example,
Novell's i-Chain is officially "liberty-compliant")? Does anyone think
it's worth their while to do that?

As for the enterprise portal product question, i'm specifically talking
about Enterprise Portals (with a capital E and P!) (e.g. Websphere
Portal, Plumtree Portal, Oracle's product, Microsoft SharePoint Portal,
etc), rather than specific portals. It looks like we're going to set up
an enterprise portal here in the near future, and we're wondering if any
of these Enterprise Portals have been, or are going to be, shib-enabled
- we could potentially want our Enterprise Portal to be a shib-SP so
that remote users could use our portal through shib credentials. Does
anyone know if any of these 3rd party Enterprise Portal vendors have
announced, or are going to announce, shib compatibility?

Thanks again all,

R.
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