I am trying to find a single sign-on solution for Moodle and ASP.NET. We have an ASP.NET 2.0 portal app and a Moodle app (version 1.5.4) which both use Windows Server 2003 Active Directory for authentication. The Moodle app is currently hosted on a Mac OS X server, but it could be moved to a windows server if necessary.
We would like to find a single sign-on solution that will work even when users are not logged into the domain (because students may access the portal from home or any other public computer) , so that rules out Windows authentication.
Once the student has logged onto the portal application, we would like to be able to pass the username and password to the Moodle application so that the student would not have to log in again. Is it possible to use client-side script to pass this information to Moodle? Would it be possible to configure a temporary cookie that Moodle could use to read this information?
Could a service like Shibboleth be used to implement a single sign-on in this situation? If so, has anybody done this succesfully?
Thanks in advance for your help!
