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Shibboleth

Contents 1 Mission/Goals 2 Participants 3 Mailing List Subscription Information 4 Publications 5 Assistance on Shibboleth 6 Related Links

Mission/Goals

Originally funded by EDUCAUSE as a subaward of the National Science Foundation's Middleware Initiative, this project was joined by eleven universities in the Great Plains Network Consortium to establish a Shibboleth testbed in the GPN region.

Project goals include

• Develop a region-wide collaboration environment through the development of middleware services
• Build a regional middleware infrastructure to share resources across the region
• Strategic planning on a regional basis

More information about this phase of the project can be found at the GPN ETR web site.

Participants

The Shibboleth Project is open to all GPN member universities. Initial participants included

University of Arkansas: Amy Apon (PI), David Merrifield (co-PI & President of ARKnet)

Great Plains Network: Co-PI Dr. Greg Monaco, Director for Research, Great Plains Network and Kansas State University

University of Missouri: Gordon Springer (co-PI & GPN Executive Council Member)

University of Kansas: John Louis (co-PI & GPN Executive Council Member), Wes Hubert, Kathryn Huxtable

University of Oklahoma: Henry Neeman (co-PI), Dennis Aebersold

University of Nebraska – Lincoln: Dale Finkelson (co-PI), Byrav Ramamurthy (co-PI)

South Dakota State University: Delmar Johnson (co-PI & MIDnet Board Member)

North Dakota State University: Thomas Moberg (co-PI), John Grosen

Peter Kiewit Institute: Hamid Sharif (co-PI)

University of South Dakota: Joe Collette (co-PI)

Mailing List Subscription Information

How to join and receive notifications:

1. address an email to majordomo@greatplains.net,
2. put the words subscribe gp-shibboleth in the body of the email,
3. send the email!

Publications

• The Great Plains Network Middleware Testbed by Amy W. Apon, Gregory E. Monaco and Gordon K. Springer. Published in Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience.
• GPN ETR Case Study, January 2006
• GPN MU ETR Case Study, January 2006

Assistance on Shibboleth

GPN members are encouraged to contact GPN Support to obtain assistance with Shibboleth installations.

To get a GPN shib Identity please contact GPN Support.

For Greg to add a new ldap ID:

1. Download and install Apache Directory Studio.
2. Start Studio
3. if given a screen with a picture goto workbench.
4. Select LDAP and new connection
   1. goldenrod.greatplains.net
   2. port 636
   3. use ssl encryption
   4. simple authentication
   5. bind: cn=Manager,dc=greatplains,dc=net
   6. goto people in list box, drop it down by clicking arrow to the left
   7. copy an entry and change details
   8. use putty to go to 129.130.119.2 at 4545 and log in.
   9. makepasswd --char 7
   10. use that as the password and hash method as SSHA

5/22/2008 -- dhancock restarted ldap and tomcat following a system reboot on 5/21.

Related Links

• GPNgrid
• Open Science Grid Home
• GPN Middleware MACE Documentation
• University of Arkansas Grid Computing Wiki
• University of Nebraska Tier 2 and Grid Computing Wiki
• Technical Report: Shibboleth, October 2006, by Rahul Deshmukh (pdf format) This is a reader-friendly guide to a complicated subject.

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GPN Member Web Site

Great Plains Network Home Page