Forum OpenACS Q&A: Copenhagen - External Authentication

Participants

Simon Carstensen, Bernt Pettersen, Mohan Pakkurti, Cato Kolås, Michael Hebgen, Al Essa, Lars Pind, Bruno Mattarollo

Summary of Discussion

Status:

Heidelberg, Collaboraid, and others have been working on the specification here:

http://www.collaboraid.biz/developer/ext-auth-spec

Further development was on hold until the meeting in Copenhagen so we could work on collaborative funding for the project.

Who is going to be invovled:

Heidelberg, MIT, Bergen, Galileo.edu (we hope - not present), Greenpeace, University of Copenhagen (we hope - not present)

What is going to be the contribution?

Collaboraid: Implementation and coordination
Heidelberg: Funds and coordination
MIT: Funds and People (Funds need to be approved)
Bergen: Funds and People (Funds need to be approved)
Greenpeace: Funds and People (Funds need to be approved)

What is needed:

LDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS, Active Directory, ???

Getting users into the system from external sources and synchronizing these users. IMS based API sync? Other suggestions?

Timeline:

Work on mutual project specification and have it done by the start of May. Target end for this project: late June

Open Questions

Who else wants to join to make this happen?