shibboleth RPM and "/etc/init.d/shibd"

[Kaspar Brand]

On 18.08.2011 04:57, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> I will be anouncing a prerelease package (labeled 2.5, but only the
> packaging has been worked on) in the next day or two hopefully that
> includes fixes for the shib.conf issue and installs shibd to run as
> "shibboleth".

I warmly recommend to cut the user name down to 8 characters max.
("shibd" would be my suggestion)... _POSIX_LOGIN_NAME_MAX is 9. Weird
behavior might result otherwise.

Kaspar