Napster Shibboleth Target PSU/Napster Technical Integration R. Ramos

1 Discussion Outline  Napster University Program  PSU Basic Requirements  Napster Authorization/Authentication  PSU Shibboleth Authorization/Authentication  PSU/Napster Music Subscription Registration  PSU/Napster Music Service Usage  PSU/Napster Music Subscription Renewal  Napster Target Hardware

2 Napster University Program  Provide a legal online music service to Universities  Optional installation of local cache to help save on bandwidth costs  Universities Participating so far include: –PSU, the first University to participate in the program –U of R, second University to participate

3 PSU Basic Requirements  Restricted access to special university music subscription  Keep user identities private  Each user is allowed to sign up for a single account  Required use of Shibboleth

4 Napster Authorization/Authentication  Authorization –Valid credit required –Monthly verification of credit card  Authentication –Username and password captured during registration is used for login

5 PSU Shibboleth Authorization/Authentication  Authorization –PSU administered and maintained which users were allowed to use the music service each semester –No credit card required  Authentication –Shibboleth username and password

6 PSU/Napster Music Subscription Registration  PSU Shibboleth authentication used to access Napster registration  PSU Shibboleth used to authorize access to special university music subscription  Users are uniquely identified with opaque handle from PSU Origin  Custom built Napster registration for shibboleth

7 PSU/Napster Music Service Usage  Restricted access to special university music subscription already handled by registration using Shibboleth  Shibboleth no longer needed to use music service for the duration of the semester  Napster authentication is all that is required to access the music service on or off campus

8 PSU/Napster Music Subscription Renewal  Music subscription expires at end of each semester  PSU Shibboleth used for authentication and authorization to reactivate special university music subscription  User are uniquely identified with opaque handle from PSU Origin  Subscription is automatically renewed without having to go through another registration

9 Napster Production Target Platform  Apache w/mod_perl  Linux Red Hat 7.3  BigIP Load Balancer  Server Cluster –2 Servers - Dual 2GHz PIIIs w/1GB RAM