Setting up Shibboleth IdP to mock SAML provider

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/7/19, 11:08 AM, "users on behalf of Brandon Chinn" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of brandon at leapyear.io> wrote:

> Yes, the checklist is specific to my SP, but I had no idea what the hierarchy of xml files was. 

That's documented, but is not a useful entry point into the system.

> I had no idea metadata-providers.xml was the first thing you should fill out to configure your SP

Granted.

> then relying-party.xml to configure a "profile"
>(still unsure how a profile determines auth method)
>, then general-authn.xml to configure the authentication method

You don't, mostly, and certainly not for basic testing/mock up.

You add metadata, and you configure authentication, and that's largely it at first. Attributes are usually next.

-- Scott