Shibboleth Metadata

[Kevin P. Foote]

On Fri, 3 May 2013, XiaoXia Dong wrote:

> I have a question which likes to get your opinion and see how other people deal with this issue within the community. We have a few SP providers who are not a member of InCommon. We are currently download the InCommon metadata daily.
> What is the best way to deal with this combination of non-InCommon member metadata and InCommon member metadata?  How does your institution deal with this?

Load a separate metadata file for your "partner" entities within your
relying-party.xml file.

I currently load 3 groupings of metadata: federation (incommon),
internal (local SPs), partner (external partner services)

See the thread below where this is covered.. also consult the wiki :)


http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.shibboleth.user/22771/focus=22773

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPMetadataProvider


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thanks
  kevin.foote