SSO/HTTP

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HTTP Authentication utilises server provided authentication mechanisms to identify and authorize the users request.

For Apache, numerous solutions do exist, a small selection below:

  • Basic
  • Kerberos
  • LDAP (e.g. user lookup)
  • DBD (e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, etc)


For IIS, there are limited options:

For either major system, further user details rely on parent schemes (e.g. LDAP provided by AD/eDirectory; MySQL DB with user information) provided by Users Sources to autocreate and manage users if necessary.

There are some troubleshooting tips for getting things to work.

Note: Joomla! 1.0.x users are able to use this specific method through the HTTP SSO mambot.

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