topic SSO external authentication based on session attribute in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/sso-external-authentication-based-on-session-attribute/m-p/303527#M256657 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Our client uses its own SSO system, which includes one HTTP Filter in charge of managing session attributes in order to identify the user.&nbsp; As far as I know, Alfresco does not support external authentication based on session attributes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, we're thinking about overriding </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>SSOAuthenticationFilter<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> from Alfresco in order to develop a customized </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>wrapHeaderAuthenticatedRequest<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> able to extract user identification from one specified attribute of session object. Alfresco Share configuration could be as usual: add external authentication entries in </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>alfresco-global.properties<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> and modify </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>web.xml<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> to replace Alfresco SSO filter with the customized one.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any better way to achieve this?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:58 GMT angelborroy 2013-04-24T14:54:58Z SSO external authentication based on session attribute https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/sso-external-authentication-based-on-session-attribute/m-p/303527#M256657 Hi,Our client uses its own SSO system, which includes one HTTP Filter in charge of managing session attributes in order to identify the user.&nbsp; As far as I know, Alfresco does not support external authentication based on session attributes.So, we're thinking about overriding SSOAuthenticationFilter‍ Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:54:58 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/sso-external-authentication-based-on-session-attribute/m-p/303527#M256657 angelborroy 2013-04-24T14:54:58Z Re: SSO external authentication based on session attribute https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/sso-external-authentication-based-on-session-attribute/m-p/303528#M256658 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm also doing some changes to the authentication chain, and so far it seems that only the main application allows you to extend it with out changing any core. I did not find any way of avoiding the web.xml change in Share</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 May 2013 17:05:41 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/sso-external-authentication-based-on-session-attribute/m-p/303528#M256658 ivo_c_costa 2013-05-16T17:05:41Z