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On the Service Provider side, we can test the user authentication and authorization implementation on a widely deployed cloud framework by using federated identities:
- it is not necessary creating local accounts for the users; ephemeral ones will be used
- the access to the resources is regulated by the entitlements released by the IdP proxy and provided by one of the attribute authorities.
The current status of this work has been presented at the general AARC meeting in Utrecht in May 2016. See this Slide presentation for more details. SA1.2 Pilots. Updates
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