Information Technology Services
Single Sign-on Federation For Web Applications (Service Providers)
WSU ITS provides Single Sign-on (SSO) Federation services for WSU departmental IT Professionals. The two supported services ITS provides are Shibboleth and AD FS. With either of these services, you can securely authenticate each person that comes to your web application, which is called a Service Provider.
Once the person is successfully authenticated, the Shibboleth or AD FS Identity Provider (IdP) can also pass identity or authorization information to your Service Provider. These are called claims or assertions. Neither Shibboleth nor AD FS actually do authorization. That is left to your Service Provider (web application) to make authorization decisions based on the identity assertions passed to you.
Some Service Providers are purchased. Some are built by the WSU IT Professional. Both SSO solutions can support either of these.
A Shibboleth Service Provider is used on any platform such as linux, Windows and Macintosh. If you need help in building your own Service Provider for Shibboleth, you can get information here:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Installation
ITS supports AD FS only on Windows platforms. There is no up to date information available at this time for federating with the newer version 3 of AD FS.
The charge from ITS for federating an application with shibboleth or AD FS is $81/hour, after the first two hours; the first two hours will be free. This is for the actual labor done, not the number of days necessary to do the work.
Written approval from your area’s Signature Authority agreeing to assume the $81/hour cost for federating with WSU’s Shibboleth or AD FS Identity Provider is required before work will be scheduled.
ITS does not have a way to know how many hours this will take. Past projects have taken anywhere between one hour to over 20.
Single Sign-on Federation requests are processed in the order received within 6 business days from submission of request. Failure to fill out all requested information may result in a delay in the processing of the request.
Once you have a functional Service Provider (web application), follow the steps below.
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