[wp-edu] Shibboleth on WordPress

[Bill Dennen]

We have been using the plugin for a few years at Brown.

Functionally, it has worked well.

The only issue that comes to mind is a confusing interface for adding
users. That is, administrators are sometimes confused when to add a new
user vs an existing user. We modified the "add user" screen to help, but
our changes are pretty Brown-specific.




On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Altgilbers, Ian M <Ian.Altgilbers at tufts.edu
> wrote:

> We installed/configured on a dev system back in 2014, but didn’t move
> forward at the time due to the fact that many of our users are not in
> LDAP.  We’d have to deal with directing people to the appropriate login,
> which we didn’t have a great solution for at the time.
>
> We too are now being “encouraged” to move applications to Shib, so we
> might be in a similar boat soon.
>
>
> Ian Altgilbers
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Educational Technology Services
> Tufts Technology Services
> Tufts University
>
> Phone: 617.627.0388
> http://it.tufts.edu/ests
>
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo <srg at temple.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> We have a large WordPress multisite at our University. Currently, we are
> using a LDAP plugin to handle our authentication/authorization. Our
> Identity Management group wants everyone to move to Shibboleth if possible.
> We already have the IdP infrastructure.
>
> The issue that concerns me is that the WordPress Shibboleth plugin [1]
> seems to be not very well maintained. On the GitHub repo for the plugin
> [2], there are pending pull requests from 2014 and 2015 and a handful of
> pending issues (including some that are multisite-specific). The majority
> of the pull requests and issues have no response from the
> committer/maintainer.
>
> Is anyone else using Shibboleth for a WordPress multisite instance? Are
> you using a custom implementation or this plugin? I’m just looking for any
> feedback from anyone who is using it to see if it’s a worthy pursuit or if
> we should just stick with LDAP.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Guglielmo
> Temple University
>
> [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/shibboleth/
> [2] https://github.com/mitcho/shibboleth
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