Authenticating from multiple authentication sources in a collaborative platform

• Published in: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation pp. 229 - 234
• Main Authors: Vu Dang, Quang, Berger, Olivier, Bac, Christian, Hamet, Benoît
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA Springer US
• Series: IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing
• Subjects: Authentication Mechanism; Authentication Service; Identity Federation; Identity Provider; Legacy User

This paper presents a proposal to address the need for multiple authentication sources for users of collaborative work platforms. The proposed approach, developed for the needs of GET and Picolibre, relies on a generic solution that integrate groupware servers in a Shibboleth infrastructure. We have...