Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April NMI R2 Shibboleth recipe experience Art Vandenberg Director, Advanced Campus Services Information Systems & Technology Georgia State University

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Resources (ingredients) Hardware – Sun Netra X1 Student – CS undergrad… and then some Myself – commitment, focus, some authority Shibboleth component docs Subscribe to recommended lists… Time… time… (160hrs over 5 weeks…)

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Prep work…not shibboleth Hardware OS patches (GSU security regs) Apache, Apache Ant Tomcat Mod-jk SUN Java runtime environment … gee, and we’re not at Shibboleth yet

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Substitutions… Enterprise authentication –Stub in password file (htpasswd…) –But don’t forget… Enterprise directory service –Recommended & desirable –But also can be stubbed in… (modular approach… build out)

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Actual Shibboleth install Elapsed time vs actual time Dedicate days (if possible, don’t time slice) If we did it today… maybe 4…8 hrs. But it took “4 weeks” Reading the documentation (right…), but iterative reality and sheer focus You can’t install virtually; hands-on needed

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Gotchas & practice “Is that what the doc said…?” Firewalls: SUN environment (ssadm), syntax, testing; (and, oh, have to Activate) Mac browsers (different, “smarter”?) – really persistent access (but not shibboleth?) Read the doc; install; re-read; istall again… Plenty of opportunity for practice… ;-)

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Have a Goal & Purpose Set a goal (cf. NMI testbed deadline!) GSU library, which leads to… Galileo Statewide library (demo commit) Which leads to GSU Library… & JSTOR And Library intranet (…& IT intranet) …Campus Pipeline??

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Current Goals v 0.8 origin v 0.8 target (for the library intranet) Enterprise authentication (JDBC realm) LDAP attribute authority (beyond ) JSTOR pilot underway

Internet2 Spring Meeting, Washington DC April Benefits Working toward national standards Organizational knowledge –Shibboleth… but also, apache, tomcat, unix, web services, … –(CS student may become IT hire!) –(old dogs like the SUN too) It’s just cool