Shibboleth Authentication for ILIAS
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Requirements:
- Webserver must run Shibboleth Service Provider 1.3 or newer.
  See documentation for your Shibboleth federation on how to set up Shibboleth.

Configure ILIAS for Shibboleth authentication
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1. Protect the file ilas3/shib_login.php with Shibboleth.
  For apache you could use:

--
<Location ~ "/shib_login.php">
        AuthType shibboleth
        ShibRequireSession On
        require valid-user
</Location>
--

   To restrict access to ILIAS, replace the access rule 'require valid-user'
   with something that fits your needs, e.g. 'require affiliation student'.

   shib_login.php authenticates the user if the required Shibboleth attributes
   are available and if the require rule is satisfied.

   For IIS web servers, you must define in the shibboleth.xml or shibboleth2.xml
   RequestMap element a rule like:

--
<Host name="your.ilias.host.org">
    <Path name="path/to/ilias/shib_login.php" authType="shibboleth" requireSession="true">
</Host>
--

   See http://www.switch.ch/aai/support/serviceproviders/sp-access-rules.html on
   how you can protect Ilias in order to grant access only to specific users.

2. As ILIAS admin, go to the 'Administration >> Authentication and Registration'
   options and click on the link for the 'Shibboleth' settings.

3. Activate the "Enable Shibboleth Support" checkbox on the top.
   After defining the default user role for new users registering via Shibboleth
   and the name of the Shibboleth federation this service is part of,
   you have to define whether the Shibboleth users shall select their home
   organization directly on the ILIAS login page or on an external page.

   If you have chosen to use the ILIAS WAYF, you have to make sure that
   Shibboleth is configured to have a default applicationId for the <host>
   element and that the default Shibboleth handlerURL is configured to be
   "/Shibboleth.sso", which usually is the default setting for Shibboleth.
   To check that, open the shibboleth.xml configuration file and lookg for the
   <host> element, which must have an attribute 'applicationId', e.g.
   applicationId="default".
   If you don't want to use the default session initiator (for example because
   your ILIAS installation is part of several federation), you can specify
   a location of a session initiator for a Identity Provider as a third
   argument. The session inititors can be found in the shibboleth.xml
   configuration file as well.

   Also see:
   https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB/SessionInitiator (SP 1.3.x)
   https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/NativeSPSessionInitiator (SP 2.x)

   If you chose to use an external WAYF, fill in an URL to an image that is to
   be used for the login button. Default ist 'images/shib_login_button.png'

   The login instructions can be used to place a message for Shibboleth users
   on the login page. These instructions are independent from the current
   language the user has chosen.

   Read below what you can use the data manipulation file for.

4. Fill in the fields of the form for the attribute mapping. You need to provide
   the names of the environment variables that contain the Shibboleth attributes
   for the unique ID, firstname, surname, etc. This e.g. could be
   'Shib-Person-surname' for the person's last name. Refer to
   the Shibboleth documentation or the documentation of your Shibboleth
   federation for information on which attributes are available.
   Especially the field for the 'unique Shibboleth attribute' is of great
   importance because this attribute is used for the user mapping between ILIAS
   and Shibboleth users.

   #############################################################################
   Shibboleth Attributes needed by ILIAS:
   For ILIAS to work properly Shibboleth should at least provide the attributes
   that are used as firstname, lastname and email in ILIAS.
   Furthermore, you have to provide an attribute that contains a unique
   value for each use. This could e.g. also be the users emailaddress.
   This unique attribute is needed to map the ILIAS user name to a certain
   Shibboleth user.
   #############################################################################

5. Save the changes for the Shibboleth authentication method.

6. (optional) Go to Administration -> User Accounts -> Global settings and
   disable that certain fields, which may be provided by Shibboleth, can be
   changed by the users.


How the Shibboleth authentication works
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For a user to get Shibboleth authenticated in ILIAS he first must go to the
Shibboleth-protected page shib_login.php. If he gets access to that pag, he also
gets authenticated in ILIAS.
ILIAS checks whether the Shibboleth attribute that you mapped as the unique
Shibboleth attribute is present. This attribute is only present if a user could
be authenticated at his home organization

If the user's ILIAS account has not existed yet, it gets automatically created.
The user only has to accept the terms of use and is logged in automatically.

To prevent that every Shibboleth user can access your ILIAS installation you
have to adapt the 'require valid-user' line in your webserver's config
(see step 1) to allow only specific users.

ILIAS can use Shibboleth AND another authentication methods. So if there are a
few users that don't have a Shibboleth login, you could manually create ILIAS
accounts for them and they could use the normal ILIAS login (provide login name
and password on login page).
Users can log in only via one authentication method unless they have two
accounts in ILIAS.

How to customize the way the Shibboleth user attributes are used in ILIAS
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Among the Shibboleth settings in ILIAS there is a field that can contain a
path to a php file that can be used as data manipulation hook (kind of an API).
You can use this if you want to further process the way your Shibboleth
attributes are used in ILIAS.

Example 1: Your Shibboleth federation uses an attribute that specifies the
           user's preferred language, but the content of this attribute is not
           compatible with the ILIAS data representation, e.g. the Shibboleth
           attribute contains 'German' but ILIAS needs a two letter value like
           'de'.
Example 2: The username is generated by the Shibboleth part of ILIAS using the
           user's firstname and last name and a number in case several users
           have the same name. This could give a username 'Hans Muster 2'.
           If you are not happy with the way this name is generated you could
           write a file that generates the username the way you want it.

If you want to use this hook you have to be a skilled PHP programmer. It is
strongly recommended that you take a look at the file
ilias3/Services/AuthShibboleth/classes/class.ilShibboleth.php, especially the
function 'login' where this file is included.
The context of the hook file is the same as within this login function. So you
can directly edit the object $userObj.

Example file:

--
<?php

        // Set the zip code and the adress
        if ($_SERVER[$ilias->getSetting('shib_street')] != '')
        {
                // $address contains something like
                // 'SWITCH$Limmatquai 138$CH-8021 Zurich'
                // We want to split this up to get:
                // institution, street, zipcode, city and country
                $address = $_SERVER[$ilias->getSetting('shib_street')];
                list($institution, $street, $zip_city) = split('\$', $address);

                ereg('([0-9]{4,5})',$zip_city, $regs);
                $zip = $regs[1];

                ereg(' (.+)',$zip_city, $regs);
                $city = $regs[1];

                ereg('(.+)-',$zip_city, $regs);
                $country = $regs[1];

                // Update fields for new user or if it has to be updated
                if ($ilias->getSetting('shib_update_institution') || $newUser)
                        $userObj->setInstitution($institution);
                if ($ilias->getSetting('shib_update_street') || $newUser)
                        $userObj->setStreet($street);
                if ($ilias->getSetting('shib_update_zipcode') || $newUser)
                        $userObj->setZipcode($zip);
                if ($ilias->getSetting('shib_update_city') || $newUser)
                        $userObj->setCity($city);
                if ($ilias->getSetting('shib_update_country') || $newUser)
                        $userObj->setCountry($country);
        }

        // Please ensure that there are no spaces or other characters outside
        // the <?php ?> delimiters
?>
--


How to upgrade your Service Provider to 2.x
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In case you want to upgrade your Service Provider from 1.3.x to 2.x, be aware 
that in version 2.0 the default behaviour regarding attribute names in the web 
server environment changed.
While the Service Provider 1.3.x published the Shibboleth attributes to the
web server environment as HTTP Request headers, the Service Provider 2.x 
publishes attributes as environment variables, which increases the security for
some platforms and allows the attributes to have the exact names as defined in 
the Shibboleth attribute-map.xml file.
However, this change has the effect that the attribute names change.
E.g. while the surname attribute was published as HTTP header 
'HTTP_SHIB_PERSON_SURNAME' by 1.3.x, this attribute will be available in $_SERVER['Shib-Person-surname'] (depending on /etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml)
or just as $_SERVER['sn'].
Because ILIAS needs to know what Shibboleth attribute names shall be mapped for 
an ILIAS user profile field, one has to make sure the mapping is updated after 
the Shibboleth Service Provider upgrade.

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Because you risk locking yourself out of ILIAS it is strongly 
recommended to use the following approach when upgrading the Service Provider:
1. Enable Database authentication before the upgrade. 
2. Make sure that you have at least one manual account with administration 
   privileges working before upgrading your Service Provider to 2.x.
3. After the SP upgrade, use this account to log into ILIAS and adapt the 
   attribute mapping in 'Administration -> Authentication and Registration -> 
   Shibboleth' to reflect the changed attribute names.
   You find the attribute names in the file /etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml 
   listed as the 'id' value of an attribute definition.
4. Test the login with a Shibboleth account
5. If all is working, disable database authentication again if you had it 
   enabled before the upgrade
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How to add logout support
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In order make ILIAS support Shibboleth logout, one has to make the Shibboleth 
Service Provider (SP) aware of the ILIAS logout capability. Only then the SP 
can trigger ILIAS's front or back channel logout handler.

To make the SP aware of the ILIAS logout, you have to add the following to the
Shibboleth main configuration file shibboleth2.xml (usually in /etc/shibboleth/)
just before the <MetadataProvider> element.

--
<Notify 
	Channel="back"
	Location="https://#YOUR_ILIAS_HOSTNAME#/#PATH_TO_ILIAS_DIR#/shib_logout.php" />
--

Then restart the Shibboleth daemon and check the log file for errors. If there 
were no errors, you can test the logout feature by accessing ILIAS, 
authenticating via Shibboleth and the access the URL:
#YOUR_ILIAS_HOSTNAME#/Shibboleth.sso/Logout (assuming you have a standard 
Shibboleth installation). If everything worked well, you should see a Shibboleth
page saying that you were successfully logged out and if you go back to ILIAS 
you also should be logged out from ILIAS.

Limitations:
Single Logout is only supported with SAML2 and so far only with the Shibboleth 
Service Provider 2.x. 
As of August 2009, the Shibboleth Identity Provider 2.1.1 does not yet support
Single Logout (SLO). Therefore, the single logout feature cannot be used yet. 
One of the reasons why SLO isn't supported yet is because there aren't many 
applications yet that were adapted to support front and back channel 
logout. Hopefully, the ILIAS logout helps to motivate the developers to 
implement SLO :)

Also see https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/SLOIssues for some 
background information on this topic.

Warning: 
Due to the above limitations you should be aware of the following.
Although a user might be logged out form ILIAS as well as the 
Shibboleth Service Provider, he still might have a valid session at the 
Identity Provider. Therefore, clicking on the ILIAS login button will 
immediately log in the user again. Therefore, the best logout solution as for 
now still is to tell users to quit their web browser! Only if the Identity 
Provider also supports Single Log Out (SLO), a "real" logout becomes possible.

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- Thanx to Marco Lehre <lehre@net.ethz.ch> for language suggestions and general
  feedback.
- Thanx to Philipp Tobler <philipp.tobler@id.unibe.ch> and Werner 
  Randelshofer <werner.randelshofer@hslu.ch> for suggesting and implementing
  a better algorithm for generating a user name.
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In case of problems and questions with Shibboleth authentication, contact
Lukas Haemmerle <lukas.haemmerle@switch.ch>.
