Federated Blackboard

[Steven Carmody]

On 11/8/13 2:25 PM, David Langenberg wrote:
> It's the original blackboard.
>

someone at BlackBoard sent the attached file a couple of years ago. If 
this is out of date, let me know, and I'll match you up with the person 
who shared it.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Blackboard 9.1 - Guidance
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:06:59 -0700

Hi Richard,

George from Blackboard here. Steven was kind enough to forward your note 
along. I wanted to provide some updated guidance for Blackboard's 
support of Shibboleth on Linux/Solaris.

We have had clients who have been successful using the older versions of 
Shibboleth on the older version of Apache which ships with Blackboard. 
Understandably this is not an optimal solution. Beginning in 9.1 SP8 due 
out later this year/early next, we are supporting Shibboleth 2.x 
natively and also Apache 2.x. In the interim, I'm supplying the attached 
document which describes how to front-end Blackboard with Apache 2.2 
thereby allowing you to use the Shibboleth 2.x Apache module with 
Blackboard. This is a pre-release document that you can use to try out 
the configuration on a test/development server. I'll ask that you please 
don't distribute it widely (such as to a listserv). We'll have a more 
official document and support information available when SP8 is 
launched. With proper know-how, there's no reason this configuration 
would not be able to be used in production today.

Thank you,
-George

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Blackboard 9.1 - Guidance
Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:17:20 -0500
From:   Richard Wendel <richard.e.wendel at gmail.com>
Reply-To:       Shib Users <users at shibboleth.net>
To:     users at shibboleth.net



I am looking for a little guidance on Blackboard integration. I am 
integration with ADFS (SAML2, not the ADFS module), but using Shibboleth 
per Blackboard's published instructions on how to integrate.
Unfortunately, their instructions indicate using Shib 1.1 (which I am 
having trouble trying build at the moment).

I wanted to find out if anyone was using the Blackboard Shibboleth 
authentication module with current (2.4.x) software and what additional 
steps were needed. I have already repackaged the RPM for Apache 1.3.41 
that is included in Blackboard 9.1. I have it passing me to a "secure"
area after successfully authenticating against my ADFS, so it appears 
that my Apache integration specifically of Shibboleth works fine.

My guess is that I believe previous versions used the Header vars to 
pass info, and current uses the Env vars. In addition, they recommend a 
separate mapped var (ShibMapAttribute) when using Ajp1.2 (which is what 
is there) since REMOTE_USER doesn't get sent properly, which isn't an 
Apache directive in the current versions of Shib.

Also, is there a way to log/capture the unencrypted claims after 
attribute mapping in Shib so I can verify the claims mapping from ADFS 
to what Shib expects like eppn, etc.

Thank you,

-Richard



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