Introduction
This wiki site is offered to assist Cornell web site administrators who are interested in using Shibboleth authentication and authorization technology for access to their website, or to a vendor's website. The Shibboleth Service Provider can usually be used as a replacement for CUWebAuth. The advantage of using Shibboleth is that you can enable access to your site to users from other institutions that are members of the InCommon Federation.
See the InCommon website for more information and a list of Colleges and Universities that are members.
Shibboleth will not enable people from all colleges and universities to have access to your site, only those that are members of the InCommon Federation. In addition, you can restrict your site to only certain members of InCommon, and only if those members have certain attributes (such as student, faculty, staff, etc.)
Shibboleth is also a popular method for enabling cloud vendor sites to authenticate and authorize Cornell users.
Integrators outside of InCommon who would like to make use of Cornell's Identity Provider may point to the test IDP first and work through any initial issues. When you are ready to move your integration into production, please submit a request at https://shibrequest.cit.cornell.edu to start the process.
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| In the follow up to a critical security advisory that Shibboleth Consortium released on Feb 27 2018, Identity Provider should begin to insist on the use of XML Encryption going forward. From now on, all the new service provider must provide a certificate for encryption in the metadata. |
Cornell IDP Info
Generally, vendors will have the following questions. You can send them a link to this page to get started
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Prod IDP: https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth Test IDP: https://shibidp-test.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth |
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Cornell is the member of InCommon. Cornell's metadata is included in InCommon's metadata. Get Cornell's metadata from InCommon: http://md.incommon.org/InCommon/InCommon-metadata-idp-only.xml If you just need the content of Cornell IDP metadata, get it from: https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth If you are integrating test instance of your application, please point it to Cornell IDP test instance. Test IDP's metadata can be accessed from https://shibidp-test.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth |
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| https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/SHIBBOLETH/IDP+certificate |
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Prod IDP login URL(POST binding): https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO Prod IDP login URL(Redirect binding): https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO Test IDP login URL (POST binding): https://shibidp-test.cit.cornell.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO Test IDP login URL(Redirect binding): https://shibidp-test.cit.cornell.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO |
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| No. Our IdP doesn't support logout because our credentials stick around until you close your browser. We usually recommend that you give the user instructions to quit the browser if they want to log out. Recently one of our vendors hooked up their logout button to a page that gives instructions – see example. |
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| No. Weill Medical school has its own Identity Provider. If your application service provider supports multiple Identity Providers, a separate integration request can be sent to Weill Medical IT. |
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| No. Cornell IDP only support Cornell NetID login. |
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| Yes, the Identity Provider is behind the load balancer which provides load balancing and failover. |
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Currently we release the following public attributes. Other attributes are available but must be configured - please send email to idmgmt@cornell.edu if you don't see the attribute you are looking for. Majority of Service Providers use Attribute Name In SAML Assertion(value in second column) to map to the attribute in their system, but some service providers use Friendly name in SAML Assertion.
TransientId is the default NameID. |
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| If you don't already have a Cornell NetID, you might be able to obtain an exception with sponsor NetID. Please talk to the person who is your contact at Cornell, or email idmgmt@cornell.edu. |
Service Provider Installation
There are at least four choices for Service Provider installation.We have experimented with the C version and links to our notes are included here. As we try other versions we will update this site.
How to install Shibboleth Service Provider on Windows
C version, distributed on the Internet2 site
- Linux Internet2 Service Provider Install - in an alternate path (not /usr/sbin) - A supplement to the Shibboleth Documentation website... Use these instructions if you need to install the Service Provider in a non standard path.