Talk:MNet

Perhaps this is asked too late, but what if shibboleth support was added to Moodle? This would provide support federated authentication authentication, rather than simple SSO. Doing this may kill a number of birds with one stone.

MartinL says: We considered Shibb very carefully -- we really wanted to use it. But it involves a complex daemon acting as the IDP, it's not something you can "just install and run" like Moodle. A high requirement for Moodle Network was that installation had to be (relatively) simple and available even on simple/cheap hosting. And talking with people that look after Shibboleth installations was... interesting...