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Liberty Authentication Plugin for PAS

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LibertyAuthPlugin is Zope PAS Liberty Authentication plugin allowing to authenticate users via Liberty SSO system. Its Liberty compliance relies on Lasso, a free (GNU GPL) implementation of the Liberty Alliance specifications.

Current release

No stable release available yet.

Experimental releases

Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases

  • Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
  • Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
  • Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
Liberty Authentication Plugin for PAS 0.3-Unreleased-SVN (Release candidate) Released Feb 14, 2007
A Liberty authentication plugin for Zope / Plone Pluggable Authentication Service. This Plug-in have been developed initialy to integrate Plone in an e-Learning SOA for the European Project GEARS. It now been used in several implementations.
Liberty Authentication Plugin for PAS 0.2-Unreleased-SVN (Beta release) Released Nov 29, 2006
A Liberty authentication plugin for Zope / Plone Pluggable Authentication Service. This Plug-in have been developed to integrate Plone in an e-Learning SOA for the European Project GEARS
Liberty Authentication Plugin for PAS 0.1-Unreleased-SVN (Alpha release) Released Nov 9, 2006
A Liberty authentication plugin for Zope / Plone Pluggable Authentication Service. This Plug-in have been developed to integrate Plone in an e-Learning SOA for the European Project GEARS

Project Description

Project resources

This Plugin for Zope/PAS have been developped for the European project Gears (http://gears.euproject.org/) founded by the European Commission (Leonardo Da Vinci Project, http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/leonardo/leonardo_en.html) to demonstrate benefits of Liberty Alliance Services and Identity Federation (http://www.projectliberty.org/) for eLearning SOA.

It relies on Lasso (http://lasso.entrouvert.org/) (Liberty Alliance ID-FF 1.2 compliant and certified library http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty_interoperable/interoperable_products/id_ff_1_2_interoperable_product_table and http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/adoption/commercial_it).

In this project the Lasso library have been used with:

- Plone 2.5 CMS (http://gears.eife-l.org/),

- Elgg (social networking opensource ePortfolio build in PHP using PHP Lasso library) (http://gears.elgg.org/),

- Strategy Blueprint (eLearning content management system, based on .Net and using an Identity Proxy Server provided also by Entrouvert and developped for this project) (http://www.strategyblueprint.com/),

- Authentic (Liberty Alliance Identity Provider able to build the federation) (http://authentic.labs.libre-entreprise.org/).

This federation of services have been presented during last ePortfolio interoperability plugfest associated with fourth international ePortfolio Conference in Oxford in October 2006:

http://www.eife-l.org/news/ep2006

LibertyAuthPlugin is copyrighted by Entr'ouvert and is licensed through the GNU General Public Licence.

by Marc Van Coillie last modified November 9, 2006 - 02:56

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