Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

> sorry for not being clearer -- so, before trying this, I should edit 
> the shibboleth.xml that comes  with the distribution, and wherever 
> the string localhost occurs, change it to the real name of my host?

I can't say for certain that you would want to change every instance, but I
can't think of any offhand you wouldn't, since I changed the identifiers to
example.org.

> I guess I was hoping that the shib code might recognize localhost as a 
> special value, and substitute in my real host name..... but as I type 
> that out, and see how ridiculous it  looks, the answer is obvious  (-:

That doesn't work in general because of vhosting and so forth. I could have
coded something to map "localhost" to the default server hostname, I guess,
but I think that moves beyond "convenience" and into "confusing".

The real answer is somebody needs to write a script to install the software
by prompting for the hostname and subbing it in.

-- Scott