[TriLUG] SSO in a mixed world

[Brian McCullough]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:05:23AM -0500, matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > What mechanism would, say, Joomla use, behind the Apache Basic Auth SSO,
> > to authorize and authenticate the users?  Yes, Apache has let you into
> > the site, but how does Alfresco know that?
> 
> Off the top of my head, this sounds like a Kerberos application.  From
> what I understand, Kerberos issues authentication tickets that can be
> passed around amongst the applications, solving the problem of Alfresco
> knowing that Apache has let you in.

Thanks Matt.

That was what I thought that I understood, just didn't understand the
mechanism.  Actually, I think that there is a plug-in to the Spring
framework that does this.  Maybe I was looking for something similar in
Joomla.  OK, just call me confused.  Back to the books.


B