Date and time
Friday 3 October 2008, 13:30 - 17:00
Description
The workshop will introduce the attendees to a new kid on the block of federation technology that allows for quick deployment of federated access services, based on SAML 2.0 and PHP.
SimpleSAMLphp has been key to the quick progression of the Andalusian federation in Spain and allows for bridging diverse federating mechanisms such as Shibboleth 1.3 and 2, SAML 2.0, even OpenID.
SimpleSAMLphp allows for simple and easy integration of PHP applications into federated environments, but can also integrate non PHP ones through Authmemcookie.
SimpleSAMLphp has a good set of features and goodies; the whole description can be found at http://rnd.feide.no/simplesamlphp
Who should attend
Persons interested in setting up a federated environment or in connecting their applications to a federation or in integrating their identity management systems in a federation, in an quick, easy and powerful way.
Outline
1. Overview of SimpleSAMLphp
2. Connecting to user databases
3. Integrating with existing Web Single Sign On systems
4. Use as an identity provider (IdP)
5. Use as a service provider (SP)
6. Bridging capabilities
7. Consent and privacy
8. From 0 to federation in 120 minutes (hands on)
What to bring
Attendees should bring a machine capable of running PHP 5.2, with it already installed. A suitable user database: LDAP, RADIUS, MySQL is a plus.
About the presenter
Victoriano Giralt has been doing system administration and Internet related work for over 20 years. He is systems manager at the University of Malaga and is involved in middleware activities at regional, national and international levels. He is a member of ECAM (European Committee for Academic Middleware), directories and schemas activity leader in the TERENA Task Force on European Middleware Coordination and Collaboration (tf-emc2), and is involved in several efforts for defining person schemas. Victoriano has participated in the AAF working group for the definition of the Australian auEduPerson schema.