Authentication and identity services the 'Simple' way

Published:

6 Dec 2011

Often library users, including students, academics and also library staff themselves, are faced with an array of different passwords for accessing different parts of the network, catalogues, electronic resource databases and so on. This can be readily resolved with SimpleSAMLphp which builds on your database of users (e.g. LDAP or radius) to support single sign-on local authentication.

Following a very popular session at the EIFL-FOSS Regional Seminar 2011, EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-Licensing held a Themed Week on the SimpleSAMLphp software that makes possible single sign-on and local authentication.

Guest speakers at the online workshop for this Themed Week included:

Brook Schofield, Project Development Officer at TERENA
Marina Vermezovic, AMRES (the Serbian National Research and Education Network)
Stanislav Tsymbalov, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

You can view the recording of the session here.

The session was supported by a wiki, available at http://titanpad.com/eifl-foss-simplesamlphp - this also gives details of some preliminary steps you can take, including downloading a virtual machine on which to run detailed training materials aimed at achieving installation.

Download Marina's presentation here

Download Brook's presentation here

See Stanislav's animated presentation here

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