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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are using OpenAthens LA 2.2 as our IdP software, and have it configured to provide authentication for our university’s VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What we would like is to have a specific Shibboleth/OpenAthens login page (i.e. the SSO URL) which is only used when users are attempting to access the VLE, as well as having a general purpose Shibboleth/ OpenAthens login page for users accessing other protected resources. Can we provide this alternate SSO URL using a <SessionInitiator> in the shibboleth2.xml file on our VLE, or must the SSO URL be provided within the IdP metadata?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='border:none;border-top:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;padding:4.5pt 0cm 2.25pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Andrew Flanagan <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td rowspan=5 valign=top style='border:none;border-top:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt;padding:2.25pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=180 height=97 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CD456A.E8090E90" alt="Description: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/assets/images/surreylogo.gif"></span></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Applications Development <br>IT Services <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Surrey <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Guildford <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Surrey <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>GU2 7XH <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#555555;display:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>+44 (0)1483 683875 <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="mailto:a.flanagan@surrey.ac.uk"><span style='color:#B59B0C;text-decoration:none'>a.flanagan@surrey.ac.uk </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/"><span style='color:#B59B0C;text-decoration:none'>www.surrey.ac.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#CCCCCC;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The University of Surrey is a university established by charter. 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