SimpleSAMLphp

SimpleSAMLphp is an application written in native PHP that deals with authentication.

See also Learning SimpleSAMLphp (1).

Description

SimpleSAMLphp is an award-winning application written in native PHP that deals with authentication.

The project is led by UNINETT, has a large user base, a helpful user community and a large set of external contributors. The main focus of SimpleSAMLphp is providing support for:

• SAML 2.0 as a Service Provider (SP)
• SAML 2.0 as an Identity Provider (IdP)

However, it also supports some other identity protocols and frameworks, including:

• Shibboleth 1.3
• A-Select
• Central Authentication Service (CAS)
• OpenID
• WS-Federation
• OAuth

SimpleSAMLphp is easily extendable, so you can develop your own modules if you like.

With the memcache session handler, SimpleSAMLphp scales pretty well. A replication layer is built upon memcache, such that an unlimited number of SimpleSAMLphp web front-ends can work with a back-end matrix of memcache servers with both replication (fail-over) and load-balancing.

SimpleSAMLphp is tested with several other federation software implementations, including:

• Shibboleth 1.3
• Shibboleth 2.2
• PingID
• Sun Federation Manager
• Sun Federated Access Manager
• Sun Access Manager
• mod_mellon
• Central Authentication Service (CAS)

Typographic error

Here is an example of a defintiion file:

• https://simplesamlphp.org/docs/stable/pack

See also

• Security Assertion Markup Language

External links

• Official website

Videos:

• Installing simpleSAMLphp
• Installing simpleSAMLphp
• Configuring SAML 2.0 with ServiceNow
  • See also SSOCircle
• OpenStack as SP (Simple Saml PHP) demonstration
• SimpleSAMLPHP