Shibboleth Developers

[Christopher A Bongaarts <>]

In the immortal words of 
:

> this week, we've seen a *lot* of questions representing a broad range 
> of issues and problems that a site might encounter when installing 
> the shib software.... its been like a trip down memory lane, visiting 
> all these old problems, issues, and friends...  (-:
[...]
> but, I'm concerned about whether we might see more and more campuses 
> bringing this level of skill and experience to a shib install, and 
> repeating the experience we've seen this week, and wondering how to 
> simplify this process......

Rewrite it in C with autoconf, so admins can configure, make, and make 
install ;)  Then the only challenging part is actually *configuring*
it correctly (which with sufficient debug logging should be a cinch).

I'm guessing I'm not the only one who has never had to run a Tomcat
deployment until deploying Shib...

(Actually, my first instinct was to implement the origin stuff locally 
integrated with our existing SSO infrastructure.  Then I realized that 
first I would have to build a Perl extension to interface to the SAML
library, and that was a bit too much ;))

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