The SDSS Federation no longer accepts new applications to join the federation. Applications should instead be made to the UK Federation.
Notes for existing members of the SDSS Federation on making the transition to the UK Federation are provided here.
The SDSS project at EDINA has built a development Shibboleth federation for managing access to UK academic online resources (see aims and objectives). JISC Core Middleware Programme projects and other early adopters can join the SDSS federation by following this procedure (but note the italicised paragraph above).
Latest News
Internet 2 announces new Shibboleth Identity Provider release
Posted on Wednesday, 10 January 2007
This new version offers a number of enhancements and some new features including:
- Two new resolution plugins that allow for static attribute values for everyone in the system and the ability to use ECMAScript (Javascript) to define and manipulate attribute values.
- Integration of Will Norris's ARP constraint functionality which allows for rules to be constructed that release or deny attributes based on the values of other attributes. This can be very helpful for implementing things like FERPA release flags.
- A set of features meant to help organizations transition to Shibboleth 2.0, these includes the ability to optionally terminate support for 1.1 service providers, modified entity credential (X.509 cert) trust checking, and ability to read "raw" keys from the metadata.
- Ability to trap stale requests (when users hit the back button), option to redirect users to an "SP-blame" page when SPs issue requests with a target parameter, and some new clustering support.
For a complete list of the changes please see the change log.
As always downloads are available from the Shibboleth website.
Live Shibboleth-Enabled Services
The following Shibboleth-enabled services are available to subscribing institutions from the list of SDSS Live Sites.
