Shibboleth IDP3 Installer Metadata Generation Questions

[Rod Widdowson]

> The idp-metadata.xml file that is generated by the installer is somehow getting
> port :8443 added to some of the Location URLs, but not in others.  

Those are the back channel ports.  It is very much usual for the back channel to be on 8443.

> The second thing I'm trying to figure out is how to have the installer generate
> the DisplayName, Description, and Logo (and uncomment them) in the idp-
> metadata.xml file without having to update the file afterwards. Is there any
> way to do that?

The answer to both your questions is no.  The metadata is hard wired inside the code that the installer runs and is very much targeted at people going in and interactively editing it afterwards.

If you are doing any sort of batch installation I would suggest that you generate the metadata separately and put it in post install.  If you want some helping code you should look starting here http://svn.shibboleth.net/view/java-identity-provider/trunk/idp-installer/src/main/java/net/shibboleth/idp/installer/metadata/

I'm always interested in helping people building installation packages, so if you want to take a discussion over to shib-dev we can think about ways of helping this further.  This might well be via parameterization of the installation package (idp.metadata.backchannel.port and so on)

Rod