Dear Dataverse Network Community,
I will be hosting a public meeting in #dvn on
irc.freenode.net about
how best to integrate Shibboleth into the Dataverse Network code base
on Wednesday, February 13 at 2pm EST. Logs will be available at
http://irclog.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/2013-02-13
I'm writing to invite all interested parties to participate!
As
http://shibboleth.net says, "Shibboleth is among the world's most
widely deployed federated identity solutions, connecting users to
applications both within and between organizations."
If you're familiar with OAuth or OpenID, Shibboleth is somewhat
similar. If all goes well, (someday!) Dataverse Network administrators
will be able to choose to have their users authenticate against
Shibboleth rather than local passwords stored within a Dataverse
Network.
There are many details to work out, and I'm sure it will take more
than one meeting, but this will be the first. :)
The agenda will be:
- summarizing how authentication works in a Dataverse Network today
- reaching a common understanding of what Shibboleth is
- roughing out a plan for how to integrate Shibboleth into the DVN
- discussing implications of Shibboleth integration
I'll post a summary to this ticket after the meeting:
https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/2657
I hope many of you are able to participate, bringing opinions and
expertise. Since I'm relatively new to Shibboleth, you can have a big
impact on how the integration with DVN is implemented! The easiest way
to join the meeting will be via
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=dvn
Thanks,
Phil
p.s. Here's the permalink for the meeting in the unlikely event it
needs to be rescheduled:
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=dDM1dDVlMDY5Z3MybWNkOTlmZTVyZGpjMG8gcGhpbGlwZHVyYmluQG0&ctz=America/New_York
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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for
http://thedata.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin