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titleCAS and Shibboleth game
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titleYale application

Some application that accepts authentication of both Yale users and users that are not Yale users but are remote users – users who can authenticate to some other Shibboleth-hosting institution within the Federation.

(redirects to, specifying on redirect URL that remote users are acceptable)

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titleYale CAS

Provides local user login UI and provides some WAYF mechanism whereby non-Yale users can specify at which institution they can authenticate.

(redirects to Handle Server of institution user selects. Let's say the user is a Rutgers student(smile)

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titleRutgers Handle Server

Itself provides or is fronted by local authentication UI. In Rutgers' case, this is likely CAS. User authenticates to Handle Server (e.g., by authenticating to a local CAS instance and passing through the CAS Java Servlet Filter in accessing the Handle Server).

The "Local Shib Authority" will do three things: translate attributes from eduPerson to local (e.g. "phone" to "phoneNumber"); filter the attributes, passing through only those that we are willing to accept; and manage the federation – what other schools do we trust?

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