Extracting Login Credentials from a 3rd Party Cookie

[david.stachon]

My Cognos gateway has something called "Siteminder" sitting on it.

...the behaviour, is that when any http request is made on that server, it will redirect to our corporate SSO login page. If credentials are entered correctly, a Siteminder cookie is created with relevant details (most importantly to me, user id, and password)

In order to prevent the user from having to login twice (i.e. once to Siteminder, and then again to Cognos), I'd like to be able to take the credentials created by Siteminder in order to automatically pass those through to Cognos (i.e. camuserid, camnamespace, campassport, etc..)

Any thoughts or direction on the most robust way of doing this?

[MFGF]

I have no direct experience of this, but are you referring to Netegrity Siteminder? If so, this is a supported authentication provider, and you can configure Cognos 10 to use it to authenticate your users from what I can see.  What are you using currently as your provider?  It may simply be a case of switching to Siteminder instead.

Regards,

MF.

[david.stachon]

very interesting idea.

...I shall give it a try.

Best case scenario, after logging into siteminder, cognos will automatically pick up those credentials and I'm good to go.

Currently, we plan on using Active Directory for cognos (i.e. passing through what we get from siteminder to authenticate in Active Directory)