[ome-devel] integration with NIH AD

[Blazej Pindelski]

On 3 Sep 2014, at 14:15, Yanling Liu <vrnova at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Blazej,
>

Hi Yanling

> Thank you very much for your comments.
>
> When you say the example code should work for both the develop and dev_5_0 branches, does it mean the Centrify password provider is included in OMERO server download package? If so could you please help to let me know how to turn it on?

What I meant was that the code on my branch will work and compile with the develop and dev_5_0 branches
of the OMERO source code repository. We do not distribute that specific provider in the downloadable ZIP packages of the
server.

So, the implementation of such provider (using my branch as an example) is in your hands. We haven't had
any plans to add new password providers, as there is a long list of authentication systems we would have to support.

If Centrify comes up as a very pressing need from the community, we will of course consider scoping implementation
work for a generalised solution.

With kind regards,
Blazej


> Thanks,
> Yanling
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Blazej Pindelski <b.pindelski at dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 2 Sep 2014, at 19:03, Yanling Liu <vrnova at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear OME developers,
>
> Hi Yanling,
>
> > In case you know anyone in NIH (www.nih.gov) has installed OMERO and integrated with NIH AD, please do let me know...
> >
> > The problem I am facing is LDAP won't work in NIH configuration, instead, we rely on Centrify (http://www.centrify.com/) tool on Linux server for AD authentication.
> >
> > Please don't be scared by the new name of Centrify, the short answer is that we simply do a system call to a tool called adinfo to verify user credential.
> >
> > The adinfo tool is a command line tool provided by Centrify. It takes user name and password and returns query result. We have had servers using the adinfo tool for couple years and it seems to be stable.
> >
> > Do you have any plan to integrate OMERO with Centrify?
> >
> > If we create a new OMERO plugin to deal with Centrify based AD authentication, do you have any recommendation in terms of implementation? How could we contribute it back to OMERO source?
> >
>
> Centrify has been discussed before as a way of authenticating users. Please see http://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6123.
> The mentioned forum thread should have everything required to implement a password provider in OMERO.
>
> I also updated my example branch (https://github.com/bpindelski/openmicroscopy/commits/centrify), so that it's guaranteed to compile on top of the develop branch of OME. The example code should work for both the develop and dev_5_0 branches.
>
> With kind regards,
> Blazej
>
> > Thanks,
> > Yanling
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