It's reasonably easy to set up Galaxy to use external authentication. We modeled our authentication after the way MSI folks did it as posted on the galaxy-dev list a while ago. We use SSO (Single Sign On) with mod_auth_tkt SSO tied into an LDAP back-end used for our cluster. I'd be happy to share the details beyond the LDAP authentication discussion you can find in the Galaxy list archives [1] if necessary. In addition, this sort of question is more appropriate to the galaxy-dev, but not the galaxy-user list. Regards, Alex -- Oleksandr Moskalenko, Ph.D. Biological Applications Support High Performance Computing Center University of Florida 1. http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2010-May/002660.html http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2010-May/002667.html On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Joshua Udall wrote:

Dear Galaxy -

We would like to install and instance of Galaxy on our campus cluster.

The install process looks very straight forward, but tying it in with

our authentication system for the current, functioning cluster may not

be as simple. It appears that galaxy is easy to install if there are

limited users on a local machine or on a cluster where galaxy is the

main use of the cluster (so it handles all the user accounts). Where

would I direct our IT admin group to get more assistance with

customizing the authentication process with our existing, function

cluster?

--

Joshua Udall

Assistant Professor

295 WIDB

Plant and Wildlife Science Dept.

Brigham Young University

Provo, UT 84602

801-422-9307

Fax: 801-422-0008

USA

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