This is a collection of links that may be helpful if you’re setting up a Shibboleth IdP 4 service.

• https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP4/overview
• https://github.com/ConsortiumGARR/idem-tutorials/blob/master/idem-fedops/HOWTO-Shibboleth/Identity%20Provider/Debian-Ubuntu/HOWTO%20Install%20and%20Configure%20a%20Shibboleth%20IdP%20v4.x%20on%20Debian-Ubuntu%20Linux%20with%20Apache2%20%2B%20Jetty9.md
  • this one was actually pretty useful in figuring things out but it did not conform to the path of using stock Ubuntu 20.04 LTS packages as much as possible
• https://cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk/install-shibboleth-sso-on-ubuntu-20-04/
  • useful overview, particularly the opening diagram
  • focus is on Tomcat not Jetty (which is recommended)
• https://registry.idem.garr.it/idem-conf/shibboleth/IDP4/apache2/idp.example.org.conf
  • Starting point of figuring out what should be in our site configuration for our Apache 2 idp.example.edu virtual host file
• https://www.baeldung.com/deploy-to-jetty
  • General description of deploying to Jetty
• Documentation for Shibboleth IdP 3 that setup
  • https://www.switch.ch/aai/guides/idp/installation/
    • uses Postgres to manage the accounts
• Example Shibboleth SP setups
  • harvard
  • USC

Configuring our IdP

• https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP4/pages/1265631611/PasswordAuthnConfiguration
• https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP4/pages/1274544392/HTPasswdAuthnConfiguration
  • this documents using an Apache htpasswd type file