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Install SP 2.5 on Realm Linux 6

NOTE: Our vision3 yum repository has been replaced by vision4. If you are installing on a 64-bit RHEL 6/7 or CentOS 6/7 x86_64 server, you should follow our Install SP 2.5 on RedHat Linux 6/7 instructions.

You should only use vision3 if you are running 32-bit RHEL6 i686 OS.

OIT provides a yum repository of added software for Realm Linux 6 machines. We have already imported the Native Service Provider and all of its dependent packages into this repo. Packages are available for both i686 and x86_64 variants.

Add the vision3 yum repo to your server

Login to your server and become root. Run these commands to install our repo files:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/OIT/vision3/vision3.repo

Download and install the signing certificate used to verify our repo.

rpm --import https://sysnews.ncsu.edu/oit-unixsys.gpg

Now you can verify that the repo is being used by looking for the SP package named "shibboleth".

yum search shibboleth
# returns ...
shibboleth.i686 : Open source system for attribute-based Web SSO

Install the SP software using yum

On your server, still as root, run yum to install the shibboleth package and its dependencies.

yum install shibboleth

It should return a list of packages that will be installed. Your versions and architecture may be different from this example:

Installing:
 shibboleth            i686   2.5.5-2.1.vision3.el6     vision3   1.3 M
Installing for dependencies:
 libcurl-openssl       i686   7.43.0-1.1.vision3.el6    vision3   197 k
 liblog4shib1          i686   1.0.9-1.1.vision3.el6     vision3    68 k
 libsaml8              i686   2.5.5-1.1.vision3.el6     vision3   930 k
 libxerces-c-3_1       i686   3.1.2-1.1.vision3.el6     vision3   899 k
 libxml-security-c17   i686   1.7.3-1.1.vision3.el6     vision3   285 k
 libxmltooling6        i686   1.5.5-1.1.vision3.el6     vision3   675 k
 opensaml-schemas      i686   2.5.5-1.1.vision3.el6     vision3    30 k
 xmltooling-schemas    i686   1.5.5-1.1.vision3.el6     vision3    12 k

If your installation looks right, answer "Is this ok" with "y" and let it proceed.

This installs:

Initial testing

The shibd service can be started for initial testing without performing any configuration. This test will only ensure that the pieces start correctly.

On your server, still as root, restart the shibd and httpd services.

service shibd start
service httpd restart

The default httpd shib module creates a handler URL on your server at the URL path /Shibboleth.sso. You can verify this handler is running by making a Status request from the localhost.

wget -O - http://localhost/Shibboleth.sso/Status

This should return quickly with an XML document on STDOUT. If it does, you are ready to proceed with Configuration.