There currently is a joint AIS-ACNS-VUDAT project I am leading that is
looking into single sign-on solutions in general and Sentinel in particular.
Now don't get too excited, this is on a pretty slow track.  Currently we are
evaluating and comparing Sentinel and a couple of open source single sign-on
solutions, CAS from Yale U., Cosign from U. of Michigan are probably the two
leading ones, for a beta-type implementation of single sign-on between the
Magic system and ANGEL.  It is construed as research/testing leading
eventually toward an enterprise single sign-on solution.

Now, if when you say "web service," you are referring to "web services"
(i.e. SOAP, XML, etc. type architecture), then I hope I'm not giving out any
trade secrets by saying that AIS has web services-based versions of
Sentinel, including a Linux/PHP version (developed with College of
Engineering/Dennis Kelly)in beta right now.

James F. Green
Coordinator, Academic Systems
Academic Computing and Network Services
Michigan State University
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Subject: [MSUNAG] Sentinel


Are there any plans to make sentinel (https://www.ais.msu.edu/sentinel.htm)
into a web service?  This would be infinitely useful as it would allow any
server type or programming language access to the tool.

I would like to implement it to bring my department closer to single sign on
but don't run windows web servers.


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Bryan Murphy
Computer/Network Coordinator
Plant Research Labs and Plant Biology
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