Posted by: Will Strohl
3/14/2011 10:00 AM 
A couple of friends at the University of Florida turned me on to an authentication provider that they wrote for DotNetNuke. This provider basically wraps the open source standard called Shibboleth, allowing you to have a standardized single sign on experience in DNN. While any 2 organizations or applications could use this standard, it has become a popular SSO technology in universities with schools like the University of Florida, UCLA, University of Arizona, Stanford University, University of Sussex, and many more. In fact, within a year of the initial Shibboleth release, over 150 organizations were using the standard.
With this standard being so wildly popular within universities, it has been highly surprising to not see this project pop-up sooner. Factor in the amount of known DotNetNuke adoption in universities, this is that much more surprising.
Enter in Nick Dunham and Cheryl Bearden of the University of Florida. Together, they built a provider for DNN sites to use the Shibboleth SSO standard for authentication.
Shibboleth Authentication Provider for DotNetNuke
This post was written for a couple of reasons… First, it was exciting to hear that this authentication provider existed. Second, I know that a lot of people will find value in using this provider, as there are many technologies and applications that use Shibboleth as their underlying SSO technology. Finally, I wanted to help the creators of this project get more eyes on it. I’d love to see this project get as popular as I know it could be! :)
If you ever have SSO projects, check out this open source solution!
This blog entry is cross-posted from my personal blog.
About The Author
Will Strohl - (United States)
Will Strohl is an ASP.Net architect, developer, and SQL Server DBA in the San Francisco area. He is formerly the Technology Director at an exciting Orlando, FL startup, RezHub (www.RezHub.com). Now, he is the Sales Engineer for the DotNetNuke® Corporation (www.dotnetnuke.com). Will was also the President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group or ODUG (orlando.dotnetnukeug.net) for 2 years, and the Vice President of the Orlando .Net User Group or ONETUG (www.onetug.org), but now is an active member of the Bay Area DNN User Group or BayDUG (www.baydug.org).
Will regularly speaks at user groups and other community events about DotNetNuke® and the various ways it can be used and managed, including organizing the Day of DotNetNuke®. He also won the INETA Community Champions award for 2008 Q3 and 2009 Q3. Will publishes DNN videos on JumptStartTV, and is a Technical Editor for Professional DotNetNuke 5 and DotNetNuke 5 User's Guide by Wrox, as well as Wrox Blox, including DotNetNuke and Web Standards, and Building a Custom DotNetNuke Membership Provider. Most recently, Will has become a guest blogger at Applied Innovations, a popular web host.
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