Tech Trek: A Software Engineer's Guide to Code and Beyond

Today, I have encountered one interesting tool in Shibboleth IdP which will check the resolver, filters and also the metadata so that you can know exactly what will happen in any given situation without starting the IdP. J As a developer, I would say it’s a great tool as you don’t have to restart your IdP again and again after every changes. The name of the tool is (Attribute Authority, Command Line Interface) ACCLI which is located in the IDP_HOME/bin directory and is called aacli.sh or aacli.bat. How it works? Make sure, you have set IDP_HOME to your system environment variable. To check what all attribute it will return for userId SysAdmin and Service Provider EntityId “https://domain.waheedtechblog.com/shibboleth”) aacli.bat --configDir=C:\idp\conf\ --principal=SysAdmin --requester=https://domain1.com/Shibboleth Please check here for detail information.

1. Introduction Shibboleth is standards-based, open source middleware software which provides web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner. Shibboleth Identity Provider supports the SAML2 specification and is therefore ideal for use with Zendesk. This document will describe the steps required to configure Shibboleth 2.0 Identity Provider to achieve single sign-on with Zendesk. 2. Install Shibboleth IdP The V2 Shibboleth Identity Provider is a standard Java web application based on the Servlet 2.4 specification and should run for the most part in any compatible servlet container. For this setup, I am going to use Apache Tomcat 7. Install and configure Apache tomcat 7 Download the Shibboleth Identity Provider (V2.4.4) software package. Unzip the archive and uncomment <security-constraint>, <login-config...