Australian Access Federation Workshop (Minigrant) 17-18 Dec 2007 Sydney

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This workshop covers Shibboleth-only and restricted to Minigrant recipients, only very limited places available to non-minigrant recipients, register early.

Second day involves discussion of your minigrant topics to get better ideas of the problems and possible solutions.

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Invites available here

PDF of Slides

• Shibboleth slides

Agenda

Note: Items marked with * indicates hands-on session

Day 1 (17 Dec 2007)

• 8:30 Registration/Administration/Tea
• 9:00 Introduction, opening, AAF overview, setup environment
• 10:00 How to setup an Identity Provider*
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 IdP Continue*
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 How to set up a Service Provider* & How to "shibbolize" an application*
• 3.30 Break
• 3:45 Attributes Exchange
  • LDAP resolver back-end*
  • Attribute Release Policies (ARP) and Attribute Acceptance Policies (AAP)*
• 5:00 Finish

Day 2 (18 Dec 2007)

• 8:30 Registration/Administration/Tea
• 9:00 Review of the practical sessions & requirements for AAF
• 10:00 ShARPE/Autograph (including Service Description File, Attribute Mapping, eduPersonTargetedId, etc)*
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Common Problems/Troubleshooting
  • Log file explanation; SAML assertions examination
  • Certificates
  • Synchronizing time
• 11:45 Shibbolizing a second application
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Discussions
  • technical approaches to tackle minigrant
  • Common problems and possible solutions discussion for Minigrants
  • Typical scenarios: your institution, AAF, and others
  • What services do you want to provide across institution boundaries?
  • Applicability of SSO within your institution
  • What are the attributes that your application will need?
• 3:30 Break
• 3:45 Advanced Topics (raise issues you'd like to discuss, continue discussion above)
• 5:00 Finish

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Location

McKenzie^? room, Level 3, SAM Building (C10A),
Macquarie University, Balaclava Road, North Ryde,
New South Wales, 2109

Campus Map

Virtual Machine Settings

During the practical hands-on sessions, participants will be divided into groups of 2 or 3. Each group will work on their own virtual machine.

Pre-downloaded software required for the workshop resides in:

• /usr/src

The network settings for each group virtual machine are below:

• Group 0
  • Hostname: ws00.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.160
• Group 1
  • Hostname: ws01.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.161
• Group 2
  • Hostname: ws02.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.162
• Group 3
  • Hostname: ws03.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.163
• Group 4
  • Hostname: ws04.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.164
• Group 5
  • Hostname: ws05.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.167
• Group 6
  • Hostname: ws06.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.168
• Group 7
  • Hostname: ws07.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.186
• Group 8
  • Hostname: ws08.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.187
• Group 9
  • Hostname: ws09.mams.org.au
  • IP Address: 137.111.246.188

Network Access

Wireless login:
TO BE ADVISED

Login to your vmware:
username: root
password: m4m5t35t

Hardware:

• Wireless network with 802.11G.
• No wired Ethernet will be provided.

Software:

• SSH Client (i.e. putty) + X windows (on windows you can install cygwin + X)
• Web browser

Misc

1. join http://www.federation.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/testbed-dev mailing list for follow up discussion on workshop and helping out in deploying shibboleth in your institution
2. questions and issues on ShARPE and Autograph can be redirected at http://www.federation.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sharpe-users mailing list
3. general federation questions, feel free to direct them to support AT federation DOT org DOT au

Note

• Please let us know if you would like to get a copy of the vmware that you're working on. We can either burn it into CD or transfer directly to your laptop after the workshop.
• all vmwares are going to be deleted after the workshop. This includes the registration of the SP or IdP in the Federation

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