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This appendix is designed to guide system admins installing Single-Sign-On (SSO) for Shrine (using 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).

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Among other things, The SP must be configured to specify which of these attributes should be passed to the shrine code (in the form of HTTP servlet request attributes and/or headers).

Developer tools

• SAML : "SAML DevTools extension" for Chrome. These tools let you view encoded SAML content. 

A Decent Book on SAML

• Stefan Rasmusson: "SAML 2.0; Designing Secure Identity Federation". Just one of many books on the topic.

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