[Building Sakai] User account integration

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Brandon,

Take a look at the providers module in the source of Sakai. This is where the LDAP/Kerberos providers reside. You could create a new provider that talks to your database by implementing UserDirectoryProvider and optionally ExternalUserSearchUDP. This provider will then 'provide' the account details to Sakai, ie name, email etc.

For SSO, I'd recommend CAS. You would set this up at your institution and configure CAS to talk to the same database to get the user information. Then configure Sakai to offload it's authentication to CAS: http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/~steve.swinsburg/CASifying+Sakai

cheers,
Steve

On 03/07/2010, at 1:30 AM, Brandon Davie wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I’m looking to use an external MySQL database to authenticate users in Sakai 2.7. Password and certain profile changes (i.e., first & last names) done from within Sakai also need to filter over to this MySQL database. Any pointers? I’ve done some searching and found articles on how to implement LDAP or CAS, but nothing along these lines. I’m new to Sakai so please be patient with me ;-) 
> 
> A secondary objective would be to support SSO, including signing the user into Sakai if they sign in elsewhere, sign out of Sakai if they sign out elsewhere, sign in to other resources if they sign into Sakai, and sign out of other resources if they sign out of Sakai.
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
> Brandon Davie
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> The Schools of McKeel Academy
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