[OAK-3208] Exercise for External Authentication, IDP and User Synchronization

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: exercise
• Assignee: Angela Schreiber
• Reporter: Angela Schreiber
• Created: 11/Aug/15 07:55
• Updated: 03/May/18 17:27

Description

the exercises section for the 'authentication/external' topic is still completely empty and just contains an initial introduction stub.

possible areas for exercises are:

• understand the basic concepts (e.g. using LDAP integration as example)
• understand the external login module, how it interacts with external IDP
• learn how the the external IDP works and how custom implementations can be used
• train the user synchronisation: configuration of existing default implementation, plugging custom implementations, how it is used during authentication, the jmx integration....