Good documentation about Shibboleth and SAML?

Question

Where can I find useful documentation about using Shibboleth and SAML for SSO besides the Shibboleth Wiki pages, preferably for Ruby applications? Ruby-specific documentation for Shibboleth seems to be very sparse. Does anyone know good resources, tutorials or HowTos?

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Answer 1

Unfortunately, the only useful documentation I found is the official documentation from the creators of Shibboleth and SAML themselves. This seems to be a good technical overview about SAML 2 in general from the standards organization OASIS: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V2.0 Technical Overview. One can also read the complete SAML specifications, but I doubt this will be a good start. The only authorative source for Shibboleth seems to be the Shibboleth Wiki itself.

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Answer 2

These links will help you.

• http://www.imrantariq.com/blog/?s=saml
• https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoUsrManJavaInstall

Desuetude

I asked for good resources, tutorials, or HowTos. SAML is a complicated issue, if wonder if there are any good and simple explanations at all for this convoluted topic. – Ergonomics