Hi Andy
A slightly delayed follow-up question to this information: you say
"OpenAthens sites *can* appear as themselves". What happens if an
OpenAthens site has their own Shibboleth IdP - will that site's users be
able to select "Eduserv Athens" (or similar) from WAYF to access resources?
Or will it be disabled for that site, if they're not using the OpenAthens IdP?
I'm asking because I'm hoping it's the latter, especially for services like
Digimap where there can be personalisation tied to an account and we
wouldn't want users to have a choice of IdPs after 31 July, leading to
different accounts - we'd want them only to be able to use our IdP.
Thanks in advance for clarification,
Margaret Stone
UCL
On Wed, 21 May 2008 09:06:59 +0100, Andrew Anderson
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>With the updates we released yesterday, all OpenAthens sites can appear
>as themselves in WAYF lists.
>
>Andy
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>From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jane CHARLTON
>Sent: 20 May 2008 18:43
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: LA (Re: UK federation VO)
>
>They login either using an Athens login or through the UK federation by
>selecting "Eduserv Athens" from the UK federation WAYF.
>Jane
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>Jane Charlton
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>From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments on behalf of Thierry
>Delaitre
>Sent: Tue 20/05/2008 18:38
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: UK federation VO
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>
>
>Hi Jane,
>
>Thanks. Those which are using 3rd party providers such as the Eduserv
>Athens
>do not appear in the uk federation WAYF list. How do they login when
>they
>need to access a Shib protected service ?
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Thierry.
>
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>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jane CHARLTON
>Sent: 20 May 2008 13:31
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>Subject: Re: UK federation VO
>
>Hi Thierry
>Yes, it might be that they have outsourced their IdP to a third party
>provider eg. Eduserv Athens, have decided to outsource their IdP but
>haven't
>yet chosen one or are still in the process of sorting out their LDAP
>directory and implementing their IdP. To see which institutions have
>chosen
>Eduserv Athens as their IdP you can look in the metadata file available
>on
>the UK federation website
>http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml (search
>for
>"Athens/Shibboleth gateway").
>Message to everyone on the list:
>All UK further and higher education institutions (except those few that
>have
>decided to only use IP access) must join the UK federation by 31st July
>whether they are using an outsourced IdP or have implemented their own
>IdP
>otherwise their users will lose access to resources. It is therefore
>very
>important for UK institutions to join the UK federation and either
>choose an
>outsourced IdP or have implemented their own IdP by 31st July (or
>sooner).
>Kind regards,
>Jane
>
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>Jane Charlton
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>From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments on behalf of Thierry
>Delaitre
>Sent: Tue 20/05/2008 12:52
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: UK federation VO
>
>
>
>>The fallback position (which we will be using ourselves if a more
>general
>>approach is not available in time) is to select from the federation
>>metadata the scopes of all IdP organisations of interest. The metadata
>>contains both the verified name of the organisation (which can be
>>compared with the lists Sean Dunne mentioned) and the scope.
>
>I've implemented and automated the above using some some XSLT, MySQL and
>PHP. This then creates a shibboleth ACL in xml format which I can use to
>authorise HE & HE only.
>
>Looking at the stats, there are 170 HE institutions in the JISC banding
>and
>only 61 have an IDP. There are 465 FE institutions in the JISC banding
>and
>only 18 have an IDP. Many of those which do not have an IDP seem to be
>members of the UK federation. Is there any reason why they are not
>installing an IDP ?
>
>>The SP then has to authorise based on eduPersonScopedAffiliation having
>one
>of
>>the selected scopes (and member, staff, student etc. as required).
>
>Thierry.
>
>Systems and Service Manager
>School of Informatics
>University of Westminster.
>
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