SimpleSAMLphp has good documentation, and so this is not a complete/worked example of how to configure it. Instead this provides the SAFIRE-specific snippets you may need when working through that documentation.
Configuring metarefresh to fetch SAFIRE metadata You should use the metarefresh and cron modules to manage SAFIRE’s metadata automatically. SimpleSAMLphp provides documentation on automated metadata management which explains the basics of how you set this up. This document assumes you have a working cron module and have installed and enabled metarefresh.…
This page is intended to give you some ideas about how to generate eduPersonAffiliation and eduPersonScopedAffiliationi attribute that are useful to SAFIRE by reusing existing information you may already have in your internal directory services.
What’s shown below are SimpleSAMLphp config snippets, but the ideas translate to pretty much all identity provider software. If you’re not using SimpleSAMLphp, hopefully the comments help you understand what is going on. All the authproc filters shown here are documented in SimpleSAMLphp’s docs.…
This Day of Reconciliation we’re pleased to announce that key parts of SAFIRE federation hub (including the transfer notices) are now available in Sesotho. This brings the number of South African official languages supported by the federation to five.
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The SAFIRE federation hub (including the transfer notices) is now available in both IsiZulu and isiXhosa in addition to the existing Afrikaans and English. This covers the four most widely spoken home languages according to Stats SA.
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This page is intended to give you some ideas about how to generate an eduPersonPrincipal attribute that is useful to SAFIRE by reusing existing unique user identifiers from your internal directory services.
What’s shown below are SimpleSAMLphp config snippets, but the ideas translate to pretty much all identity provider software. If you’re not using SimpleSAMLphp, hopefully the comments help you understand what is going on. All the authproc filters shown here are documented in SimpleSAMLphp’s docs.…
This theme generator was developed for SimpleSAMLphp 1.18.x and is no longer maintained.
This should still work with SimpleSAMLphp 1.19.x, but may need a few tweeks.
This will not work for SimpleSAMLphp 2.0.x as the theming mechanism changes completely.
A number of people seem to find SimpleSAMLphp’s theming system intimidating. To aid with this, we’ve written a simple theme generator for SimpleSAMLphp.
The generator takes SSP’s stock templates and massages them to include some branding – amongst other things, a logo on the top right of the page and corporate colours in the header bar.…
The eduPersonEntitlement attribute is used to indicate a user’s entitlement to access a specific service or resource. For example, its most widely used value, urn:mace:dir:entitlement:common-lib-terms, is used to indicate eligibility to access licensed content from information publishers.
Relationship to eduPersonScopedAffiliation Library information providers often support both eduPersonEntitlement and eduPersonScopedAffiliation as a means of limiting access to licensed resources.
It is likely that there is significant overlap between values used for eduPersonAffiliation (and thus eduPersonScopedAffiliation).…