Authentication and Authorisation b2access.eudat.eu www.eudat.eu B2ACCESS The simple and secure authorisation and authentication platform of EUDAT This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence Version 1.1 December 2016
Authentication and Authorisation
b2access.eudat.euwww.eudat.eu
B2ACCESSThe simple and secure authorisation
and authentication platform of EUDAT
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence Version 1.1
December 2016
• The federated cross-infrastructure Authorisation and Authentication Framework
• Enables single sign-on access to the EUDAT services
• Easy to use and secure
• Developed on top of the Unity Open Source security framework
What is B2ACCESS?
• Supports several methods of authentication via the users' primary identity providers, including Google
• Integrated with EduGain and therefore supports identities from hundreds of Universities and Research institutions around the world.
• Can be used as primary identity provider, if necessary
• Can be integrated with any EUDAT service and beyond (SAML, OAuth2 and X.509)
• Provides unique and persistent EUDAT IDs
• Allows service managers to specify authorisation decisions.
B2ACCESS Features
How it works
Different methods are used for authentication and for integration with the EUDAT services
• End Users of the EUDAT services integrated with B2ACCESS
• Managers and administrators of the EUDAT services integrated with B2ACCESS
• Investigating ways so community applications can be integrated with B2ACCESS to get user identities and attributes for Authorization and Authentication decisions
Who benefits from B2ACCESS?
• Access via https://b2access.eudat.eu
• Register and log in using your Google account, Home organisation ID Provider or B2ACCESS ID
Simple & Easy to Access
• For more info: http://eudat.eu/services/b2access• User documentation:
http://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2access-usage
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Authors Contributors
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence
EUDAT receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - DG CONNECT e-Infrastructures.Contract No. 654065
Willem Elbers, CLARIN ERICKostas Kavoussanakis, EPCC, The
University of EdinburghJens Jensen, STFC
Sara Garavelli, TRUST-IT
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