[Webpub] Using MIT Touchstone with Drupal

[Janet Riley Bowker]

As you may recall from the Drupal meeting, the IS&T website project will 
use Touchstone for authentication.  MIT Touchstone is a  single sign-on 
service for web applications.  If you use Touchstone, you don't have to 
maintain your own local set of user accounts and passwords. 

A short overview is available at 
https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/TOUCHSTONE/What+is+MIT+Touchstone 
. There's more documentation at the project homepage,  
https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/TOUCHSTONE/Touchstone+%28Web+SSO%29 
.


There are two steps to using MIT Touchstone with Drupal: configuring 
your apache server to use Touchstone, and configuring Drupal to use a 
Shibboleth authentication module.

There are three IAP sessions on Touchstone.

**TODAY:**
*An Introduction to MIT Touchstone*  
(http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9180.html)
/Paul B. Hill/
Tue Jan 6, 02-03:00pm, W20-491
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This session will provide an overview of MIT Touchstone and Shibboleth. 
It will cover the overall goals and purpose of the system, the 
technology components, and its roadmap. This session will cover similar 
material to that presented during the October 23, 2008 ITAG lunch 
presentation.
Contact: Paul B. Hill, W92-153, x3-0124, pbh at mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology



*MIT Touchstone Configuration* 
(http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9181.html)
/Paul B. Hill, Robert Basch/
Fri Jan 16, 02:30-04:00pm, W20-491
This session will cover the basics of configuring a web application to 
use MIT Touchstone. It will cover the configuration options available 
when using Apache's htaccess files, and the basics of the Shibboleth.xml 
configuration file. It is not a hands-on lab.
Contact: Paul B. Hill, W92-153, x3-0124, pbh at mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology



*MIT Touchstone Hands On Lab*  
(http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9182.html)
/Paul B. Hill, Robert Basch/
Tue Jan 20, 01:30-04:00pm, W92-206
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Jan-2009
Limited to 18 participants.

This session will step participants through the installation and 
configuration of a simple MIT Touchstone enabled application on a Red 
Hat Enterprise 5 server. This will cover the use of Apache, Internet's 
Shibboleth SP package, and some third party applications. Participants 
will gain hands-on skills in
configuring Shibboleth and getting their applications ready to use MIT 
Touchstone.
Contact: Paul B. Hill, W92-153, x3-0124, pbh at mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology




For the second step,  configuring Drupal to use Shibboleth, see  
https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/TOUCHSTONE/Drupal .

Regards-
Janet

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Janet Riley Bowker
617.324.5963 
ISDA/IS&T
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue,  W92-114
Cambridge, MA 02139