How to completely shut Shib off without uninstalling

[Peter Schober]

* Meiselman, Ellen <emeiselm at med.umich.edu> [2015-01-15 19:49]:
> I need to test something without Shibboleth interfering in any way
> whatsoever

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> so i would like to shut it off completely without removing the
> handlers, module and such.

Assuming httpd:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPApacheConfig

ShibDisable On|Off
  When enabled, this allows the module to short-circuit and ignore
  requests much faster than without the option set. This is useful for
  bypassing processing for high-traffic, public content.

As explained prior on that page, this directive is

  [...] meant to appear inside Apache content-control
  sections like <Directory>, <File>, or <Location>, or in .htaccess
  files (if the "AuthConfig" override is enabled).

HTH,
-peter