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man(8) mellon_create_metadata manual page man(8)

NAME

mellon_create_metadata - Populate inital SP metadata for mod_auth_mellon

SYNOPSIS

mellon_create_metadata ENTITY-ID ENDPOINT-URL

DESCRIPTION

The Apache module mod_auth_mellon provides a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP). This service provider needs metadata to function. You can create the initial configuration for this with mellon_create_metadata. Three files will be created in the current directory. A public and private key pair, and a boilerplate metadata xml file with the public key and the URLs of this installation, that can be further edited at will.

You can reference these files in the configuration options MellonSPPrivateKeyFile, MellonSPCertFile and MellonSPMetadataFile, respectively.

OPTIONS

Specify the desired entity ID of the SP. This needs to be globally unique and is therefore an URL or URN, probably with your own domain in it. The endpoint URL is the full URL to your mellon installation. This normally ends with "/mellon" unless configured otherwise.

EXAMPLE

mellon_create_metadata urn:someservice https://sp.example.org/mellon

AUTHOR

Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs.kinkhorst@surfnet.nl>
25 January 2020 1.0