Single Sign On with Alfresco Portlet

[newto23]

Hi,

I have deployed the Alfresco 1.4 portlet in my JBoss portal server 2.4.1

Please provide me with some inputs on how I can achieve Single Sign On between the Alfresco portlet and my JBoss portal server.

Thanks..

[soshah]

Portlets receive the same authenticated state that you get when you create an authenticated session when logging into the Portal

So all you have to do is login to your portal, and the Alfresco portlet running inside this portal will be in this authenticated state

(authenticated state = Principal object with its proper roles etc)


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[newto23]

Hi,

Even after authenticating in the JBoss portal server, I found that the Alfresco CMS portlet still having a link as Login(guest), which means I have to login again.

Thanks..

[soshah]

Thats probably because Alfresco may not be using the same authentication infrastrusture (JAAS) that JBoss Portal uses.


Question 1: When you logged in the first time, was it via the builtin JBoss Portal Login screen

Question 2: When you click the Login link from Alfresco Portlet, are you on the same Login screen from earlier, or its an "Alfresco Login Screen"


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[newto23]

Ans 1 : Yes, I logged in through the JBoss login page.

Ans 2 : It takes me to the Alfresco Login page.

Thanks..

[soshah]

Then that is probably the reason why your Alfresco portlet is in non-authenticated state.


btw- why do you need to login to the JBoss Portal way if you are using the Alfresco service.


You should be able to login straight to the Alfresco service via their login page that you get in step 2


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[julien1]

Actually Alfresco should rely on the request user principal to provide an SSO. At least as an option.

Do they have pluggable authentication in their machinery ?

[newto23]

My portal page has some other portlets also and the Home page has the User Portlet for login.

We are planning to have the login only through the JBoss portal server authentication.

Regarding pluggable authentication, I am not sure, but found some xml files in the alfresco war to configure for JAAS and LDAP.

Thanks..

[bensonfungjava]

Hi all,

Sorry for my off topic question but it is very urgent.

Would you tell me where I can download the Alfresco Portlet for JBoss Portal?
I have looked for it in the entire internet, there is no such link for download. BUt I am pretty sure this portlet is available in the world.


Please help


Thanks
Benson

[bensonfungjava]

Hi NewTo23,

Did you get any solution regarding the SSO to Alfresco from JBOSS Portal?
I am coming across the same problem now.


Thanks
Benson

[bensonfungjava]

Hi NewTo23,

Did you get any solution regarding the SSO to Alfresco from JBOSS Portal?
I am coming across the same problem now.


Thanks
Benson

[bensonfungjava]

If the JBOSS portal and Alfresco are running on the separate server, how to implement the SSO between them?


Benson

[mrostan]

This post in the Alfresco forums: http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=28282
gives a way to implement SingleSignOn to Alfresco on JBossPortal

I've tested it with Alfresco 2.9.0 (built from sources) on JBossPortal 2.6.2 and JBoss AS 4.2.2

[ashish.panwar]

Hi Bensonfungjava,

I have also been looking for the same Alfresco-enterprise-jboss war file as you , and I have not been able to find the same .
Please help me out by providing me the location of this file .

Thanks and Regards ,
Ashish

[piergiorgiolucidi]

Depends on which version of Alfresco you would like to use and what you must do for your integration.

Generally you must patch some Alfresco source code, on Alfresco 3 too :(

If you want to deploy Alfresco Webscripts as portlets you can see my post here:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=145471

If you want SSO on Alfresco Client Portlet you need to implement a JBoss Portlet Filter for Alfresco Client Portlet in this way (Alfresco Forum):

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?p=28282

And then you must patch some Alfresco source code, in Alfresco 3 is necessary to patch getUserAgent() method to fix deployment on portals.

Hope this helps.