Writing my own IDP for GITkit

[Ron]

It seems the documented GITkit use cases assume the RP will do the authentication for your own website.  But what if I want to provide my own IDP to do SSO across a number of my websites?  Does GITkit help with this use case?  What standard do I follow to implement my own IDP to easily interact with the GITkit flow?  Or is there some open source IDP that I could look at / re-use / adapt for this purpose?

[Adam Dawes]

Unfortunately, this isn't going to be super-straightforward. 

To add support for an IDP beyond what GITKit provides, check out this documentation:

https://sites.google.com/site/gitooldocs/customidps

In order to run your own IDP, you could try to build some sort of meta directory via Google Apps (which can be chained to other systems via SAML) or Windows Azure. You may also want to look at tools from vendors like Ping Identity. I believe this kind of setup is one they pretty commonly support.

thanks,

AD