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Software Installation

• Tomcat: You are most likely already running Shrine, and so Tomcat is already installed. If you followed the instructions for installing Shrine you are running version 9.0.52 (as per SHRINE 4.0.0 Chapter 5 - Set up Apache Tomcat.)
  • The Tomcat home should be /opt/shrine/tomcat
• Apache: version 2.4.10 or higher
  • The Apache configuration files should be in /etc/httpd/
  • The Apache document root should be /var/www/html (specified in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)
• Shibboleth SP version 3
  • The Shibboleth configuration files should be in /etc/shibboleth

Very Basic Overview of SSO

IdP (Identity Provider): A web-based system that can authenticate a user on behalf of another system called a SP (for Service Provider).

In this implementation of SSO, the SP consists of the Shibboleth SP version 3 software. See https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SP3/overview .

Upon successful login at the IdP, the IdP will send information about the user back to the SP as "attributes".

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Installation Layout

The following instructions assume that (1) you are using Tomcat as your application server, and (2) Apache and Tomcat are running on the same host. Shibboleth SP software runs as an apache module + daemon.

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/var/www/html ← Apache static content as set in, for instance, /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Sample configuration files

They can be found in the Git repository in the shrine-setup module, specifically at shrine-setup/src/main/resources/sso

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