Neil Drage wrote:
> Colin asked "what about all the students in sites that have not yet
> implemented an IdP?". For universities and colleges that haven't
> implemented Shib IdPs you can carry on using OpenAthens to access this
> service. OpenAthens is a member of the UK Federation and so it does
> allow users to log into DreamSpark, and users doing this are identified
> as students.
>
> We worked closely with Microsoft last year on this project to ensure
> that OpenAthens users were able to use DreamSpark.
Thanks for your response Neil. Does the above suggest that we should be
able to authenticate now using our AthensIM service (part of OpenAthens
as I understand it). I did try using the "Eduserv Athens" entry in
Dreamspark's WAYF, but got the Athens error "Your home organisation does
not use the Athens to Shibboleth gateway to access this service. Please
contact the service provider or home organisation for assistance."
Should this work or have I misunderstood?
We're working on getting a working Shib 1.3 (or 2.0) instance IdP going
for UK Federation membership, but it isn't ready for use yet. It would
be good if we could give students access now.
Nigel: It isn't looking like Shib 2.0 is going to be ready before July,
which is when we were planning to have an IdP ready by. Personally I
think we'll stick with 1.3 for our first release, and then have a lovely
time converting all the configuration when 2 comes out.
Nick
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