Shibboleth installation: Intended Audience, Prerequisites, etc.

Intended Audience

These documents are intended for the system administrator that will be installing and maintaining a Shibboleth service provider in the University of Cambridge. This may be a different person than the application developer who will actually be using the attributes which Shibboleth delivers. The following basic skills are expected of the reader, and are beyond the scope of what these documents attempts to cover:

• familiarity with the local operating system, including how to install software (on some UNIX systems this may involve compiling packages from source code)
• configuring the local web server (Apache, IIS, etc)
• basic understanding of SSL, including how to generate a key and CSR
• basic understanding of XML documents