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  • From: "Scott Cantor" <>
  • To: <>
  • Subject: RE: Delegation
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:41:53 -0400
  • Organization: The Ohio State University

> Is here any a simple idea of full delegation in Shibboleth version 1.3
> which it is possible more less quickly develop for me?

Tom answered this correctly, there isn't.

> The possible scenario is following:
> A user1 of SPa uses WS-Security SAML Token ( http://www.oasis-
> open.org/committees/download.php/16768/wss-v1.1-spec-os-
> SAMLTokenProfile.pdf <http://www.oasis-
> open.org/committees/download.php/16768/wss-v1.1-spec-os-
> SAMLTokenProfile.pdf> )
> to invoke a web service SPb on behalf of user2, who has an account on the
> SPb.

All of that is possible. It's how Liberty ID-WSF works, is very hard to do
with SAML 1.1, and is impossible to do with Shibboleth by itself.

It is neither simple, quick, nor in Shibboleth today.

-- Scott




  • Delegation, Michael Boss, 04/26/2007
    • RE: Delegation, Scott Cantor, 04/26/2007

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