Re: [Bodington-developers] Bodington with SP and IdP - SSO and v2.6

[Sean M. <se...@sm...>]

yesss.....

perhaps i'm thick (shut yer gob, alistair) but I don't understand the
motivation in this one.

Is this a tool to change your password once you have authenticated to bod
already? And therefore it changes in the external store? is that a good
thing?

s


<quote who=3D"Alistair Young">
> If you're using ldap or webauth you can't change the password in bod.
> The IdP and SSO have no effect on bod at all - the change password
> option is a problem for the bodington authenticator.
>
> Is there a way to override the end point that the change password
> link points to? perhaps add Authenticator.changePasswordURL or
> something?
>
> that way, when an authenticator other than the standard one is
> installed, it will change what "change password" points to. In most
> cases it should just point to the URL of the helpdesk!
>
> Alistair
>
> On 15 Jun 2005, at 16:17, Adam Marshall wrote:
>
>> When using shibb one doesn't want a 'change password' link that
>> takes the
>> user to bodington's internal change password page. Quite where such
>> a link
>> should take the user is another matter. I guess that means there
>> should be
>> any 'change password' links in bod at all if using some form of SSO.
>>
>> adam
>>
>> --
>> Adam Marshall:       OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford OX2 6NN.
>> Shameless plug:      Use the Bodington VLE http://bodington.org
>> Blog:                http://ramble.oucs.ox.ac.uk/blog/adamm/
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>>
>> | -----Original Message-----
>> | From: bod...@li...
>> [mailto:bodington-
>> | dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Alistair Young
>> | Sent: 15 June 2005 15:54
>> | To: bod...@li...
>> | Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Bodington with SP and IdP -
>> SSO and
>> | v2.6
>> |
>> | IdP and SSO don't affect bodington so they can go into head any
>> time.
>> |
>> | Alistair
>> |
>> |
>> | On 15 Jun 2005, at 15:49, Adam Marshall wrote:
>> |
>> | > Will this go into 2.6? If so I'd suggest that it is added to head
>> | > AFTER
>> | > Aleixis's's's' WebAuth / SSO modific's as there will be the same
>> | > issues with
>> | > 'change password' links and text about 'logout' which he has now
>> | > predicated.
>> | >
>> | > adam
>> | >
>> | > --
>> | > Adam Marshall:       OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford OX2 6NN.
>> | > Shameless plug:      Use the Bodington VLE http://bodington.org
>> | > Blog:                http://ramble.oucs.ox.ac.uk/blog/adamm/
>> | > Cheese of the month: Cheshire (not to be underestimated)
>> | >
>> | > | -----Original Message-----
>> | > | From: bod...@li...
>> | > [mailto:bodington-
>> | > | dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Andrew
>> Booth
>> | > | Sent: 06 June 2005 12:51
>> | > | To: bod...@li...
>> | > | Cc: Andrew Booth
>> | > | Subject: [Bodington-developers] Bodington with SP and IdP
>> | > |
>> | > | Just to keep you up to date, we now have two bodingtons
>> | > communicating IdP
>> | > | to
>> | > | SP and we have automatic account creation working at the SP
>> end. It
>> | > | shouldn't take too long to get the groups sorted as well.
>> | > |
>> | > | At the Bodington behind the SP, we have mapped /site and /
>> | > shibsite to the
>> | > | same bodington servlet.  The Shibboleth servlet filter is set to
>> | > protect
>> | > | the
>> | > | /shibsite URLs but not the /site ones, so the same resources
>> can be
>> | > | shib-protected or not depending on the URL used.
>> | > |
>> | > | One thing that we need to point out is that usernames created
>> in the
>> | > | SP-protected bodington are of the form
>> | > use...@my... - we
>> | > | therefore need to increase the size of the username field in the
>> | > database,
>> | > | which is currently 30 characters wide. We propose to increase it
>> | > to 128
>> | > | characters. (The same had to be done with mvnForum to cope with
>> | > usernames
>> | > | of
>> | > | this kind.)
>> | > |
>> | > | Do either of these changes (servlet mapping and field width)
>> break
>> | > | anything
>> | > | anyone else is doing?
>> | > |
>> | > | Aggie and Atif
>> | > |
>> | > |
>> | > |
>> | > |
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