Re: [Bodington-developers] MVNForum status (was: bodington.org SP)

[Colin T. <col...@ou...>]

Any news/views on MVNForum integration? I'm not sure what stage we got 
to with this discussion, looks like y'all agree that it should be a 
Shibbed integration, but there are still differences in implementation...

Colin

Alistair Young wrote:
...
> I'd have reservations about the in-context one as it uses an auto  login 
> "feature".
> 
> The shibbed version creates users on the fly and adds them into  groups 
> defined in their attributes. It doesn't create fora etc as  that's not 
> shibboleth - that's provisioning - IMS, which we're  looking into.
> 
> Ant has a load of useful in-context functionality that does that but  
> we're thinking of IMSing it or something similar. So bod uses IMS to  
> create the fora from it's tool and users use shibb to get to the fora.
> 
>> has the web service version
>> surfaced?
> 
> not yet Aggie
> 
> Alistair
> 
> On 24 Mar 2006, at 13:18, Andrew Booth wrote:
> 
>> Urrggle!  I thought we agreed that mvnforum was going in, but it  
>> would be
>> the UHI 'same context' version.  What happened - has the web  service 
>> version
>> surfaced?
>>
>> Aggie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bod...@li...
>> [mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf  
>> Of Paul
>> Davis
>> Sent: 24 March 2006 12:27
>> To: bod...@li...
>> Subject: RE: [Bodington-developers] bodington.org SP
>>
>> When did we decide MVN forum was definitely going into 2.8?  Which
>> implementation of the integration?  How seamless is it to use, and  
>> can user
>> groups/rights be carried across?
>>
>> When you say Bodington.org as a host are you thinking of blackcat  
>> networks
>> or UHI or Leeds?  We couldn't volunteer here.
>>
>> Paul
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bod...@li...
>> [mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf Of
>> Alistair Young
>> Sent: 24 March 2006 12:09
>> To: bod...@li...
>> Subject: [Bodington-developers] bodington.org SP
>>
>> hey, I'm back - it's sunny here - must be the light!
>>
>> Anway, mvnforum - I've been told it's going in 2.8 but it's shibbed.
>> Now, it needs the Guanxi SP in front of it but it's a lot of overhead
>> for a site to learn and maintain - all that federation stuff.
>>
>> However, if bodington.org hosted the Guanxi SAML Engine module of the
>> SP, the we could just distribute Guards with mvnforum and anyone
>> wanting to try bod + mvnforum could use the services of the
>> bodington.org SP.
>>
>> Do you, bodders, think this is workable?
>>
>> Would bodington.org be willing/able to host a bodington federation SP?
>>
>> Is the idea itself workable? If bodington.org couldn't host it maybe
>> we could but it would be nice if it had the bodington.org domain.
>>
>> Alistair

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