Authentication

• Auth proxy
  • Authentication interface
    • Shibboleth attributes
  • Authentication sequence
• Data Service
  • User data interface
    • Authentication to the API
    • Attribute query
    • User search query
• Connector Service
• Auth source

Auth services provide other services user authentication and identification information.

The central component is the Auth Proxy which has the authentication interface. Auth Proxy works as a proxy between services and authentication sources. Auth Sources have the actual user identity information and perform the credential checks.

User attributes can be queried from the Auth Data service.