About SSO

Single sign on is a session/user authentication process that allows a user to provide his or her credentials once in order to access multiple applications. The single sign on authenticates the user to access all the applications he or she has been authorized to access. It eliminates future authenticaton requests when the user switches applications during that particular session.

AuthKit Implementations

The SSO sub-package of Authenticate implements various SSO schemes for several University SSO systems as well as OpenID. In the future, additional SSO schemes like LID may also be supported.

These systems sub-class the RedirectingAuthMiddleware from the api package as they all utilize a similar scheme of authentcation via redirection with back-end verification.