Shibboleth installation and SP Creation

  1. First install Shibboleth. For Ubuntu machine follow the below steps:

    sudo apt-get install shibboleth-sp2-schemas libapache2-mod-shib2
sudo apt-get update
sudo a2enmod shib2
sudo service apache2 restart

  2. Modify /etc/hosts file to allow url that you decided to go with, Basically add SP URL (your sp.example.org).

  3. Follow documentation given at below link: https://tuakiri.ac.nz/confluence/display/Tuakiri/Installing+Shibboleth+2.x+SP+on+RedHat+based+Linux. Primarily the documentation given under Federation Membership and Configuration sections.

  4. You also have to generate certificate to paste in New SP request, which can be done by below sample command:

    sudo /usr/sbin/shib-keygen -f -u ubuntu -g ubuntu -h ubuntu.auckland.ac.nz -e http://ubuntu.auckland.ac.nz/shibboleth

  5. Steps to enable https (if in case your require). Command for generating self-singed certificate:

    openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout orcid.key -out orcid.crt

then copy both the generated certificates into /etc/apache2/sites-available (you can copy that those to anywhere). Just have to update file with name default-ssl.conf:

SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/sites-available/orcid.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/sites-available/orcid.key

sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo service apache2 restart

  1. Enable proxy mode’s in apache2 mod-enable folder so that apache can talk to your local server::

    a2enmod proxy_http and a2enmod proxy

  2. Download the metadata signing certificate for the federation metadata into /etc/shibboleth::

    wget https://directory.test.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-test-metadata-cert.pem -O /etc/shibboleth/tuakiri-test-metadata-cert.pem

  3. The Shibboleth SP installation needs to be configured to map attributes received from the IdP - in /etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml. Change the attribute mapping definition by either editing the file and uncommenting attributes to be accepted, or replace the file with the recommended Tuakiri  attribute-map.xml file mapping all Tuakiri attributes (and optionally comment out those attributes not used by your SP).

  4. Check if shibboleth 2.xml and apache 2.conf are configured correctly.