<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; ">This is a snippet from an email I received this week. This vendor does not want to maintain an SP, however they do have a SAML system setup. Can anyone help me understand if this is possible, and how i would go about doing it?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; ">Thanks in advance for any help.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; ">----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; ">The way that the SAML framework operates. When you authenticate a user on your portal, you can provide a link or button there to send send an xml file to a url we would specify. That xml file will be in the SAML framework – encrypted and would contain the institution ID – Elon – and the user’s username. That is sufficient for us to authenticate the user.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Calibri"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; ">Shibboleth uses SAML and should be able to generate the required xml file. For more on SAML, see:</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Calibri"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; color: rgb(45, 44, 250); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language</a></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Calibri"> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; ">As we don’t have any working knowledge of the implementation of the Shibboleth system, I think you will have to work out on your own how to actually make this happen. When you are in a position to generate the xml file, let us know and we will provide a URL for you to point to. We can then begin testing. We won’t create the url (or rather the processing page behind it) until you are able to generate the xml file as we will need that to know how to interpret and parse it.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Calibri; "><br></div><br><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Thank You,<br><br>-Chance<br><br> <br>Chance Cox | Elon University<br>Systems Account Manager | Systems Administration<br>MSDNAA Representative | Computing Sciences<br><br>phone +1 336.278.5038 | fax +1 336.278.2817<br><br>Campus Technologies will never ask for your password in an email. <br>Don't ever email your password to anyone! <br><br><br></span>
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