We need to show document from alfresco in Liferay portlets. We would use the CMIS connector with the document library. But we are required that the users be authenticated with OpenAM (a sso).
All the research I've done seam to indicate that ootb it doesn't work. But I can't find anyone that made it works.
So is it possible to use the CMIS connector with an SSO authenticated user?
If yes, what step should we do, or is there some doc already available?
If no, Is there any work around or other solution to connect Liferay with alfresco with an SSO authenticated user?
So to summarize the situation, no, by default there is no way to use Liferay document librairy/cmis connector with any SSO.
But, it is possible to use it by modifying the Liferay feature (With hook) and using a specific strategies (This go from proxy sso to some java script hack that I wont go to deep into as we decides not to do it) to get the required info to send to alfresco.
Other solution (that we chooses) is to implement a custom authentication on alfresco and to use a password that is not the user one as password, but there is some security concern that need to be taken into account with this solution because the simple way to do it create a "master password" that could be used by anyone.
So basically there is really no one size fit all solutions on this subject.