[Building Sakai] Sakai and Gmail Integration

[Matthew Jones]

Yea, at a high level duffy at rsmart.com wrote a contrib tool that uses the
google docs api and implements ContentResource.

https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/rsmart/google-content/trunk/

For authentication only, you'll have either use the mod_open_id in Apache
as Kevin suggests ( http://www.unicon.net/node/1210 ) or you're going to
have to write an Openid provider for Sakai login in general. There was some
rumors of some schools writing in some OAuth support for Sakai (mostly for
mobile) but nothing committed, and I don't think anything that would work
like for this specifically.

The only thing you'd never get to work would be webdav as that protocol
*requires* passwords. The only way we'd get that to work would be is Sakai
created special temporary tokens/passwords for the users to use for webdav.

The google docs tool uses an OAuth specific to the tool, it's the primary
way Google (and most other sites) allow external sites to authenticate. [1]

https://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn/rsmart/google-content/trunk/tool/src/java/com/rsmart/content/google/oauth/?root=contrib


[1] https://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth.html

-Matthew

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:03 PM, ali jan <sakaicle at gmail.com> wrote:

> rsmart integrated google docs with sakai, any idea how they did it.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Kevin P. Foote <kpfoote at iup.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I think you will have to use some sort of browser based SSO solution to
>> make this work.
>>
>> Something like shibboleth (mod_shib), openid (mod_auth_openid), or
>> CAS (mod_auth_cas). On the sakai side this is called "container
>> authentication" if my memory serves me correctly.
>>
>> Trick is to find a technology that both players, sakai and gmail in
>> your case, work with.
>>
>> ------
>> thanks
>>  kevin.foote
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, ali jan wrote:
>>
>> -> Dear all
>> ->
>> ->
>> -> I want when a user login to gmail then login to sakai is bi-passed.
>> ->
>> -> in my sakai installation user_id is exactly like gmail account.
>> ->
>> ->
>> -> Thanks
>> ->
>>
>
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