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Feb 29, 2016

APM SSO profile Client Certificate auth to posting forms based auth

Please bare with me on this scenario. I apologize if my verbage isn't spot on...

 

I have a security appliance that has no PKI smart card auth built into it which is a major issue for one of our customers. The only thing it offers is forms based authentication (username/password). They require any appliance, application, website, etc to be smart card enabled. It was brought up that maybe we could tackle the issue with F5 APM and doing a SSO profile. I think I can take care of the smart card/client certificate auth and associate a user to an identity in lets say AD. If the user doesn't exist or isn't enabled, the authentication fails. After that that, I would like to take credentials and inject them into the forms logon page of the appliance and initiate the sign on (click the submit button). So from the user experience, it seems as if they are doing smart card/client cert auth but in reality they are doing forms on the actual device. I'm hoping to get to a point where I know how to inject the username into the user name field and initiate the sign on (click the sign on button).

 

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

 

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