EDS: modifying idpselect.js

Kevin Hall hallk at stanford.edu
Fri Oct 12 15:28:15 EDT 2012


On 10/11/2012 03:36 PM, Kevin Hall wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 03:21 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>> On 10/11/12 6:03 PM, "Kevin Hall" <hallk at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> We are running a small scale EDS (only three IdPs) and want to default
>>> to the pull down menu and/or only use the pull down menu. Typing in the
>>> name of the IdP is useless to us. Can someone help? That idpselect.js
>>> file is a kind of a bear and hard to look at let alone make sense of. :)
>>
>> It's compressed/minimized. You'd have to do that with the source and then
>> regen the resulting files.
>>
>> But honestly I think if you have three IdPs, you don't really need a full
>> on DS, you can create links for that yourself pretty easily.
>
> That proposal was on the table but ultimately scrapped. We have an
> existing app which we are switching from our own native authentication
> system to Shibboleth so that we can allow logins from two sister
> organizations. There is a strong desire to minimize the impact to
> current users so we will be using the cookie solution where DS screen is
> only seen once until _saml_idp cookie is deleted/expired.

I was wrong about this. Was able to create a landing page with the three 
links within the DS area. Just had to hide the idpSelect div. Working 
beautifully.

Thanks everyone for the replies. Appreciate it.

-Kevin


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