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[EP-tech] Re: Shibboleth/SAML and ePrints 3.3.x

Hi Matt,
I work for EPrints Services and have recently setup Shibboleth login for a number of institutional repositories we host. I have been updating some internal documentation we have for this but I would need to rework this documentation before making it public as it contains customer specific information.
As you may be aware, setting up EPrints as a Shibboleth Service Provider would never be as straightforward as just installing a plugin, even if one existed, as a lot of the configuration needs to be modified in the Shibboleth Service Provider application itself (usually to be found under /etc/shibboleth/). Also a large chunk of effort is registering the Shibboleth Identity Provider(s) you want to use with your Service Provider and the getting that/those Identity Provider(s) to register your EPrints Shibboleth Service Provider. That said, is should be possible to provide as a plugin the bare bones needed for EPrints Shibboleth setup/configuration, so someone can get EPrints ready to support Shibboleth, once the non-EPrints Shibboleth Service Provider configuration is ready.
As Alen describes on his GitHub repo, http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Webserver_authentication#Add_the_login_script gives a good overview of the EPrints configuration needed if you know how to do the Shibboleth side of the configuration but there really needs to be a wiki page to walk you through the whole configuration EPrints + Shibboleth. This also needs to be somethng easy to find on the wiki when you search for Shibboleth.
Could you tell me with Operating System (OS) you are using, as if I get a chance to start working on a EPrints Shibboleth setup page pn the wiki, I will try to tailor it to this OS initially. 

Regards

David Newman
EPrints Services

On 22/04/2015 08:34, Yuri wrote:

Being Shibboleth used by an high number of universities and network of
universities:

https://shibboleth.net/consortium/

I think it should be a standard plugin, just to be activated and
configured properly.

Il 22/04/2015 01:40, Matthew Brady ha scritto:

Hi All,

I am looking at implementing Shibboleth/SAML in our version of
ePrints.  Just wondering if anyone has done this for the 3.3.x
versions, as the only documentation I can find is from 2009, and I
think goes back to about 2.3.x.

Any help/doco/instructions a little more recent would be most appreciated.

Cheers

Matt.

*Matt Brady *

University of Southern Queensland

Toowoomba | Queensland | 4350 | Australia

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