[wp-edu] New Users Signup Workflow - Shibboleth

[Laura Fathauer]

We work with shibboleth as well; I know we had to drop the "." from our
usernames. I'll contact you off list.

 

We work on a faculty sign-up basis; when a faculty member requests a
site for a class or program, we pre-create the userID's in WP which
match what gets converted from shibboleth; then the student/faculty
member is able to log in. Those without corresponding UIDs in WP get
directed to a special "you don't have access to this resource" page
after they log in through shibboleth. 

 

 

 

 

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Laura Fathauer

College of Education and Human Ecology
The Ohio State University
Ramseyer Hall
Columbus, OH 43210-1297
(614) 247-8877 x112
FAX- (614).688.4613

 

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[mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of VanDrimmelen,
Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:17 AM
To: wp-edu at lists.automattic.com
Subject: [wp-edu] New Users Signup Workflow - Shibboleth

 

Hey All,  

 

I am hoping to garner some ideas from what other Universities are doing
for the sign-up process for new users on their wordpress instances.  

 

In the past we have been using the Shibboleth plugin to authenticate new
users: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shibboleth/

 

Signups are disabled on the site.  All users have to use the campus ID
to log in the first time.  Since they use shibboleth there is no need
for a signup.  After they log in the first time then can go to the
signup page (new sites are allowed for existing users). 

 

Well, for us apparently 3.2 has broken the plugin, at least on our
instance.  I have contacted the developers but not sure if/when they are
going to update.  

 

When they authenticate and go back to the site it just goes blank.  I
have tried troubleshooting.  Current users can still log in.  But new
users go to a blank screen.  Debugging gives this error: Catchable fatal
error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in
/home/html/web-dev.unc.edu/html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 2829

 

I have googled and tried lots of solutions, but nothing is working so
far, so I am looking to see if anyone out there has any ideas on a fix
(or an updated shibboleth plugin they are using) or other workflow
ideas?  I am also just curious what others are using for signing up new
users on their campus. 

 

Thanks for any advice, tips you can offer. 

 

~Jeff VanDrimmelen

UNC-CH

http://web.unc.edu Admin

 

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