Provisioning an MIT Touchstone application:
The following information should be gathered:
- The hostname of the application server
- The operating system and version number of the server (e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4, Solaris SunOS walter 5.9 Generic_118558-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490)
- The type of web server and its version number (e.g. IIS 6.0, Apache 2.0.55, ...)
- Organization name (e.g. MIT Libraries)
- URL that describes the organization (.e.g http://libraries.mit.edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au)
- Contact email address for the server
Generate a certificate request ...
Send this information to
Next install the Shibboleth software...