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COmanage Registry MLA HumanitiesCommonsIdPEnroller

Copyright (C) 2016 Modern Language Association

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.


During a Humanities Commons enrollment flow this plugin performs one of two functions depending on whether or not the user chooses the Humanities Commons identity provider (IdP) during IdP discovery.

If the user chooses the Humanities Commons IdP at discovery the discovery service can invoke

/registry/humanities_commons_idp_enroller/humanities_commons_idp_enroller_accounts/provision

to display a form that collects the username and password that the user will use with the Humanities Commons IdP. After submitting the form the username and password are provisioned to the LDAP server and the flow continues. To continue the enrollment flow the discovery service should invoke the URL above with the query string parameter target and the value that the discovery page would have otherwise used after an IdP is selected by the user, for example

?target=https%3A%2F%2Fregistry-dev.commons.mla.org%2FShibboleth.sso%2FLogin%3FSAMLDS%3D1%26target%3Dss%253Amem%253A58fd2928856cb1d50621cf34fa0614509f6e6e837dc0f3779fdc887a5f7cfa07%26entityID%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fhcommons-test.commons.mla.org%252Fidp%252Fshibboleth

Later during the flow after the user authenticates using her newly provisioned credentials and the Humanities Commons IdP the plugin examines the authenticated identifier. If the authenticated identifier shows that the Humanities Commons IdP was used the plugin takes the username from the scoped eduPersonPrincipalName asserted by the IdP and attaches it to the CoPerson record as the WordPress identifier. It also examines the petition to find the enrollee's name and email and updates the LDAP record with them. The flow then continues.

If the user does not choose the Humanities Commons IdP at discovery the plugin displays a form after authentication to allow the user to choose her WordPress username or identifier. That identifier is attached to the CoPerson record and the flow continues.

The functionality to examine the authenticated identifier and branch depending on whether or not the user authenticated with the Humanities Commons IdP is implemented in the execute_plugin_collectIdentifier method of the HumanitiesCommonsIdpEnrollerCoPetitionsController and is invoked by the COmanage plugin mechanism.

The functionality to allow a user that chooses the Humanities Commons IdP during discovery to provision a new username and password is implemented as a "stand alone" controller.

The plugin also has a stand alone controller for configuration since normally enrollment flow plugins do not implement direct configuration functionality (they are non-instantiated).


The plugin assumes:

(1) The identifier configured to be used as the WordPress username is unique. TODO: Add fuctionality to enforce uniqueness.

(2) The enrollee name and email address are copied from the OrgIdentity to the CoPerson during the collection of enrollment attributes.

(3) The LDAP server has the pwmUser and inetOrgPerson objectClasses available.

(4) The LDAP server has the ppolicy overlay installed and configured so that the server hashes passwords before storing them. The passwords are sent to the server in plain text and must be hashed by the LDAP server.


This plugin should not be used with the core IdentifierEnrollerPlugin since it implements the same functionality but with extra logic to handle the case where the user has authenticated with the Humanities Commons IdP.