Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

> Well, that's what the metadata generator does right now.  You type in
> a fully qualified hostname and everything else is provisioned from
> that (Scope, KeyName, Location, etc.).

Yeah, I think I argued that people really wouldn't understand what 
scoping meant so asking for a domain was usually a waste of time. We 
were correcting a lot of them in InQueue for a while.

In OSU's case, the hostnames and attribute scope don't even have the 
same domain, so it's just ultimately impossible to reliably guess any of 
this stuff.

People want to install it with no understanding of the technology 
(that's what "works out of the box" means), and that just leads to 
compromises. Documentation is the excuse, but we could have books up the 
wazoo, wouldn't get people to read them until long after they first try it.

-- Scott