Shibboleth

A SAML implementation used for SSO into a network. It is Federated and OSS Consists of:

• IdP
• SP

Installation

1. Ensure you are using a RPM-based package manager like yum
2. Copy the raw file https://shibboleth.net/downloads/service-provider/RPMS/ for amazonlinux2023 into /etc/yum.repos.d/shibboleth.repo
3. sudo yum makecache
4. sudo yum install shibboleth.x86_64
5. All config files will be in /etc/shibboleth

Protocol

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Text Elements

SP

User provides required auth information

IdP

Packaged XML

SAML assertion XML

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• All SAML messages are digitally signed to be encrypted