Create a Service Provider and connect elgg with a Identity Provider.  An easy way to create an extensible and robust authentication solution.

SAML is standar and many company are using this protocol to transfer user data.

The plugin require the implementation of a SP based on simplesamlphp. With this SP you can connect to any Identity Provider based on SAML or implement your own Identity Provider.  The IdP based on identity provider offers you a huge set of differents auth sources: Yahoo, Google, OpenId, Oauth, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc

Also is a good solution to enable a sso feature at your enviroment for all your applications. Our solution "Uniquid" set SAML support for many applications

More info here, there is a demo available there to check how it works

Our company offers comercial support to deploy an Identity Provider, Service Provider and the Elgg SAML plugin.

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Access Elgg and click on the "Uniquid" button

 

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