Re: New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:10:01 -0600 (CST) Tony Bibbs <tony@tonybibbs.com> wrote: > I won't rule that out. And I to be clear, I read the PEAR descriptor on > LiveUser. It may aim at the same tasks, I agree there, but the *big* > differences are a) web service-based and b) architected to support single > sign-on. Again, I have a big picture in mind which is to support the > liberty project's interfaces which can be done minimal work with what we > I have. Don't read this wrong, I'm taking it a tad personal just because > I wrote it but if you have a plan for how these two might be merged I'd > like to hear them. > > The guts of it (authentication/authorization) are trivial IMHO. The real > value is having it as a service and on a platform that can meet Enterprise > needs. Agreed and same here. Support for Liberty Alliance can be integrated into LiveUser by writing a new container class, it´s as simple as that. SSO can be achieved by writing a) a container class that queries a i.e. a SOAP server (this will be used by any application tied to the SSO service) and b) a SOAP server that takes requests and uses any LiveUser container to process them. The mechanisms are all there, it´s all a question of container/driver/provider classes, however you wish to call them. Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>