Shibboleth Developers

["Alistair Young" <>]

Bodington contains a deployment of Guanxi. It's a bit like the difference
between Java and Embedded Java.

Guanxi is a standalone Shibboleth compatible IdP and SP.

Bodington is the platform within which Embedded Guanxi runs. The good
thing about Bodington is that it's also a very fine grained attribute
store. With an embedded Guanxi running in it, it becomes a Shibboleth
compatible attribute store out of the box. No admin required. It creates
it's own keystore and certs, self-signed just for a "kick the tyres"
evaluation. It's ARP is customised for a sensible release policy and the
bridge between the embedded Guanxi and it's attribute store is
preconfigured.

It really is a zero admin IdP. You can download the 2.4.2 release and use
it to access the Athens Shibboleth Gateway, once you've obtained proper
certs of course. The self-signed ones are for you to get used to running
an IdP attribute store.

Alistair


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Alistair Young
Senior Software Engineer
UHI@Sabhal
 Mòr Ostaig
Isle of Skye
Scotland

> On 4/27/05, Alistair Young 
> <>
>  wrote:
>>
>> You could perhaps add the Bodington VLE, which is a Shibboleth
>> compatible
>> IdP in it's own right (it uses Guanxi/SAMUEL):
>> http://bodington.org
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bodington
>
> Oh, so the Bodington VLE is an implementation (or deployment?) of the
> Guanxi implementation of the Shibboleth specification, which itself is
> an extension of SAML 1.1, right? <phew>
>
>> Look forward to seeing your slides. Can we see them?
>
> Of course, this is for the GridShib project.  I'll let you know when
> they're ready...
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>