basic authentication and shibboleth module

[Joe Shamblin]

On Jul 2, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 7/2/14, 2:58 PM, "Joe Shamblin" <wjs at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> We are in the process of moving all of our core infrastructure to new
>> servers, and as a part of that we are updating apache (we are already
>> using 2.5.3 for shibboleth). The problem I am experiencing is that
>> anytime I load the shibboleth module, basic apache2 authentication
>> breaks. It seems to work on the older server (2.2.26), but not with the
>> (2.4.7 or 2.4.9). I am unsure if I am missing something in the shibboleth
>> configuration, but it seems to be working properly with the older server.
>> Is this a known issue, or is there something I am missing with my
>> configuration?
> 
> It really depends on the configuration and what's breaking, but there are
> various commands involved and interactions to deal with to prevent
> problems.
> 
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPApacheConfig


Just what I needed thanks! Seems like ShibCompatValidUser restores a reasonable facsimile of the old behavior.

Joe
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Joe Shamblin					wjs at cs.duke.edu
Senior IT Analyst			Department of Computer Science
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