Appropriate ProviderID or EntityID^? Value

The value you set for your organization EntityID^? determines the value for your IdP or SP providerID. So for example, if my organization Entity ID value is "urn:mace:federation.org.au:testfed:mq.edu.au", then when I set up my IdP and/or SP under that organization, they would all have the same providerID value of "urn:mace:federation.org.au:testfed:mq.edu.au". This is found in idp.xml and shibboleth.xml respectively. Note that this does not mean that you need to have your IdP and SP running on the one machine. They can run on different hosts with a respective SSL certificate for each host.

Also note that for the time being, you can only have one IdP and/or SP per organization per Federation level.

-- ChiNguyen - 03 Aug 2006
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