SAML and Drupal

If you do not think that OpenID or LDAP is a good solution for you identity management solution, you might want to take a look at SAML.

I was triggered to look at SAML again beacuse a very old fature request (2003, nid 1575) was re-opened regarding having SAML in Drupal core. I think it would be a great add-on to have this in core, yet most will think it should be contrib. And the fact is that for most users SAML (endpoint) is not needed and it makes sense to have it in contrib. For a long time, the module that came the closest to this was shib auth; user authentication with Shibboleth.

Now I found a module, hosted outside drupal.org that gives the power of SAML to Drupal at https://ow.feide.no/simplesamlphp:drupal

BTW: Boris wrote about this some time ago as well.

BTW2: If you are into identity management, please follow super Pat Paterson, the nicest person in the Identity Management showbusiness.