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Jeff,
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<div>Try starting here:</div>
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<div><a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Metadata#Metadata-MethodsforSupplyingMetadata">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Metadata#Metadata-MethodsforSupplyingMetadata</a></div>
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<div>"Common federation" ~ = "a common metadata aggregate and underpinning policy that both this IdP and this SP trust, read from, and publish to"</div>
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<div>If you have one IdP and many SP's that are not super technical, it's usually easiest to maintain a metadata file for the IdP at the IdP, a metadata file for all SP's somewhere(or at the IdP) loaded by the IdP, and set up a configuration generator for SP's.
TestShib's SP configuration generator is basically sed on a template shibboleth2.xml.</div>
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<div>Hope this helps,</div>
<div>Nate.</div>
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<div>On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Jeff Masiello <<a href="mailto:jmasiello@actionet.com">jmasiello@actionet.com</a>></div>
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term Common Federation sort of loses me. In our system, specifically, we have one IdP and multiple SP’s from various places and add new SP’s randomly. I guess what I’m trying to find is a good common practice to exchange that information that isn’t tedious.
Our users who install the SP which we supply generally are not super technical.</span></blockquote>
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