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OpenStack CLI with Federated Identity: Application Credentials (2026) + SAML 2.0 ECP (2018)
2026 Update: Federated OpenStack CLI, the Modern Way This post dates from 2018, when SAML 2.0 ECP was the cleanest answer for scripted OpenStack authentication against a federated identity provider. Eight years later, the landscape has shifted. Here’s what I recommend today, drawn from running federated access on production OpenStack clouds including Open Edge Cloud.…
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Profiting From Complexity; A Recipe For Disaster
There are two types of software companies; those that profit from improving the user’s experience and those that profit from the user’s lack of technical knowledge. When designing software, it’s easy to take the lazy route and only create the bare minimum required to make a process work (requiring manual editing of configuration files, setting…
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Dropbox SSO using SimpleSAMLphp IdP
Dropbox for Business accounts can make use of Dropbox’s Single Sign-On (SSO) features. This allows for centralized administration of users instead of having to track down each user’s known application accounts and modifying settings there. SimpleSAMLphp is a flexible SAML 2.0 IdP or SP which allows admins to quickly deploy a previously complex server with…