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Shibboleth Federations
United Kingdom


In the UK Becta and JISC have a plan to implement a schools, FE and HE federation using Shibboleth to provide single sign on. This means that education establishments in the UK using Moodle should be able to authenticate their users via Shibboleth IF their education organisation joins the UK Access Management Federation and their users' identity is held by the identity provider the LA/RBC use. For Local Authority (LA) schools this will probably mean contacting their Local Authority or Regional Broadband Consortium (RBC).
In the UK Becta and JISC have a plan to implement a schools, FE and HE federation using Shibboleth to provide single sign on. This means that education establishments in the UK using Moodle should be able to authenticate their users via Shibboleth IF their education organisation joins the UK Access Management Federation and their users' identity is held by the identity provider the LA/RBC use. For Local Authority (LA) schools this will probably mean contacting their Local Authority or Regional Broadband Consortium (RBC).
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Configuring Moodle to use Shibboleth
Configuring Moodle to use Shibboleth


In addition to the online instructions you are recommended to read the README.txt file in the auth/shibboleth folder in yor Moodle distribution.
In addition to the online instructions you are recommended to read the README.txt file in the auth/shibboleth folder in your Moodle distribution.


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Revision as of 15:43, 25 May 2006

Shibboleth is an Internet2 Middleware Initiative project that has created an architecture and open-source implementation for federated identity-based authentication and authorization infrastructure based on SAML. Federated identity allows for information about users in one security domain to be provided to other organizations in a common federation. This allows for cross-domain single sign-on and removes the need for content providers to maintain usernames and passwords. Identity providers (IdP's) supply user information, while service providers (SP's) consume this information and gate access to secure content.

Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the UK Becta and JISC have a plan to implement a schools, FE and HE federation using Shibboleth to provide single sign on. This means that education establishments in the UK using Moodle should be able to authenticate their users via Shibboleth IF their education organisation joins the UK Access Management Federation and their users' identity is held by the identity provider the LA/RBC use. For Local Authority (LA) schools this will probably mean contacting their Local Authority or Regional Broadband Consortium (RBC).

External Links

Shibboleth Internet2 Website
Current Core Attributes for school sector members of the UK Access Management Federation
Becta Website Technical policy and Standards - Shibboleth Pilots

Configuring Moodle to use Shibboleth

In addition to the online instructions you are recommended to read the README.txt file in the auth/shibboleth folder in your Moodle distribution.