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The Circulation Manager occupies the Service Provider (SP) role in the SAML Protocol and authenticates a patron against an Identity Provider (IdP).
Identity Providers (IdP) may use a number of services such as Shibboleth, CAS and EZ Proxy to protect resources. The following workflows describe the communications between the respective systems and the Circulation Manager (SP)
Wokflows
Anchor SAML
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SAML
SAML-based authentication workflow for patrons is depicted on the picture below:
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