Shibboleth Developers

["Wilcox, Mark" <>]

Title: Re: OS X info, webDAV use case

The question is how do you entice the biggest DAV client of them all -- Microsoft, to change to support something Shibboleth when they SPENGO & Passport, since I don't think they're looking to support SAML?

 

I don't think that's a question of showing proof of concept of how it should work but rather MS has a business reason not to do SAML/Shibboleth at all.

Mark 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Muldoon [mailto:]
Sent: Wed 9/24/2003 11:36 AM
To: Scott Cantor; Wilcox, Mark; ;
Cc:
Subject: Re: OS X info, webDAV use case

http://dav.sourceforge.net/
Has DavFS2 (for linux), which uses the neon library for DAV functionality.
Neon actually supports HTTP 1.1 (being that it is a reference library), so
redirects and such aren't a problem.  Using this along with something like
the auth frontend that I circulated over the summer should work for linux
filesystems just fine.  Of course, that only solves 1% of the client
problem, but at least it provides a proof of concept for other vendors.

    --Ryan

On 9/24/03 11:15 AM, "Scott Cantor" <> wrote:

>> A final note -- I wonder if for DAV we should focus more on using Shib for
>> authorization and not authentication. That is if I know it's
>> and unt.edu is in my federation can I call the unt.edu
>> origin server to see data about mewilcox?
>
> Well, that's one possibility. The other is to consider writing a file system
> extension for some popular systems that can do a redirect-based SSO. Doesn't
> really solve the client issue, but might help illustrate the concept for
> vendors.
>
> -- Scott
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