Shib 1.3

Michael A Grady mgrady at unicon.net
Wed Oct 31 11:18:35 EDT 2012


First, as Scott said, if the SP only supports SAML 2 there is nothing you can do but upgrade your IdP. 

If they support SAML 1.1, here is the old documentation covering what you need:

For the Shib 1.3 IdP, look at:

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB/IdPRelyingConfig
 basically, you'd add one more:
   <MetadataProvider type="edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.metadata.provider.XMLMetadataLoadWrapper"uri="pathname"/>
into your IdP's main config file.

Now, if the SP can't give you the metadata needed, you might also have to look at the following:

 https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB/AddSP#AddSP-NoMutualFederation

On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Cantor, Scott wrote:

> On 10/31/12 10:59 AM, "Lohr, Donald" <lohrda at jmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> We have Shib v2 on our roadmap, but are not their yet.  All of the SP's
>> we interact with are InCommon Participants.  We have been asked to
>> connect Shib to a new non-InCommon Service Provider.
> 
> Shibboleth doesn't know anything about InCommon, so there's no difference
> to it. InCommon is a way of managing metadata and trust, it doesn't
> preclude others.
> 
>> Being new to Shib, especially 1.3 (which is using SAML 2x),
> 
> Shibboleth 1.3 does not support SAML 2. If your new SP is SAML 2 only,
> then you cannot connect to it.
> 
>> can I configure my current Shib
>> 1.3 environment to jointly get/send metadata to 1) InCommon and 2) this
>> new non-Incommon SP?
> 
> Yes, it has roughly similar capabilities in terms of supporting multiple
> metadata files.
> 
>> If so, what documentation exists that can guide me through making the
>> necessary configuration changes to my existing Shib 1.3 environment?
> 
> The old 1.3 documentation in the wiki, I suppose.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> 
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Michael A. Grady
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