I'm playing around with NextCloud and the first thing I would like to do is make it use my in-house, bespoke authentication system. It seems like the user_saml plugin might be the thing to mess with, since it uses the words "Authentication via Environment Variable" but I have no idea what it means by that. Ideally I'd have it just run a shell command for authentication, the way Qmail / ...

I’m playing around with NextCloud and the first thing I would like to do is make it use my in-house, bespoke authentication system. It seems like the user_saml plugin might be the thing to mess with, since it uses the words “Authentication via Environment Variable” but I have no idea what it means by that.

Ideally I’d have it just run a shell command for authentication, the way Qmail / Dovecot “passdb driver = checkpassword” works, since I already have that working for IMAP… But if instead I have to write some stupid XML endpoint, that’s not out of the question.

Any clue where to start? When I mess around on the /settings/admin/saml page it does not seem to be even attempting to load the URLs I entered.

Previously.

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