UCSD's Shibboleth Config :)

Kevin Foote kevin.foote at colorado.edu
Wed Jun 29 16:21:58 EDT 2016



> On Jun 29, 2016, at 14:11, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 6/29/16, 3:55 PM, "users on behalf of Joel Levin" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of joel.aaron.levin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> UCSD has a neat tool to generate the SP configuration files -- something like this would
>> be very useful all round.
> 
> I'd like to cook up something like the CANARIE IdP installer for the SP since it's entirely local / client-side scripting I think. More useful for Windows I guess since there's usually a browser right there to run it, but either way.
> 
> In practice though, you can only accomodate a very small set of requirements, and if the use case is that small, you're talking about changing 2-3 settings if you start with a customized file (e.g. with the local metadata source pre-configured). So that's all I've ever bothered doing, and my campus doesn't have much trouble with just copying from that.

Thanks Joel for pointing this little tool out. I like that the UCSD tool gets a standard (per campus) attribute-map.xml to the campus SP operators. 
This has always been a pain point from my seat so this is a win in my book! :)

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thanks
 kevin.foote



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