[Building Sakai] Integration of Shibboleth Authentication with Sakai

[Steve Swinsburg]

If you could write this up, that would be great.

Cheers,
Steve

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On 27/07/2013, at 6:56, "Martin B. Smith" <smithmb at ufl.edu> wrote:

> On 07/23/2013 10:11 AM, Julian Fleischer wrote:
>> All documentation that I could find in the Wiki seems to target Sakai 2.4 or 2.5 or "is an attempt to document a new feature in Sakai 2.xxx". Is there a more or less current documentation of the related interfaces?
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> FWIW, we're using Sakai 2.9 and Shibboleth at the University of Florida. We simply run the SP software and use the container login option. We populate REMOTE_USER with the SP software, and protect:
> 
> /sakai-login-tool/container
> 
> We didn't need any custom code... just some configuration options:
> 
> container.login = true
> loggedOutUrl=/Shibboleth.sso/Logout?return=https://nice-logout-page
> 
> This won't give you a directory provider that works with Shibboleth, but you probably don't want that kind of provider anyway, since you need to get user information without a user being logged in.
> 
> We also configured Sakai to fall back to Kerberos, with /portal/xlogin.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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> UF Information Technology, CNS/Open Systems Group
> University of Florida
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