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lazysession

Example Value:

lazysession = true

Informational Note:

Whether to use lazy sessions or active sessions. For more DSpace instances, you will likely want to use lazy sessions. Active sessions will force every user to authenticate via Shibboleth before they can access your DSpace (essentially resulting in a "dark archive").

lazysession.loginurl

Example Value:

lazysession.loginurl = /Shibboleth.sso/Login

Informational Note:

The url to start a shibboleth session (only for lazy sessions). Generally this setting will be "/Shibboleth.sso/Login"

lazysession.secure

Example Value:

lazysession.secure = true

Informational Note:

Force HTTPS when authenticating (only for lazy sessions). Generally this is recommended to be "true".

netid-header

Example Value:

netid-header = SHIB-NETID

Informational Note:

The HTTP header where shibboleth will supply a user's NetID. This HTTP header should be specified as an Attribute within your Shibboleth "attribute-map.xml" configuration file.

email-header

Example Value:

email-header = SHIB-MAIL

Informational Note:

The HTTP header where the shibboleth will supply a user's email address. This HTTP header should be specified as an Attribute within your Shibboleth "attribute-map.xml" configuration file.

email-use-tomcat-remote-user

Example Value:

email-use-tomcat-remote-user = false

Informational Note:

Used when a netid or email headers are not available should Shibboleth authentication fall back to using Tomcat's remote user feature? Generally this is not recommended. See the "Authentication Methods" section above.

reconvert.attributes

Shibboleth attributes are by default UTF-8 encoded. Some servlet container automatically converts the attributes from ISO-8859-1 (latin-1) to UTF-8. As the attributes already were UTF-8 encoded it may be necessary to reconvert them. If you set this property true DSpace converts all shibboleth attributes retrieved from the servlet container from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 and uses the result as if it were UTF-8. This procedure restores the shibboleth attributes if the servlet container wrongly converted them from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. Set this true, if you notice character encoding problems within shibboleth attributes.

This property was added with DSpace version 4.2 and is not available in DSpace versions before.

autoregister

Example Value:

autoregister = true

Informational Note:

Should we allow new users to be registered automatically?

sword.compatabilitycompatibility

Example Value:

sword.compatability compatibility = truefalse


Informational Note:

Sword compatability SWORD compatibility will allow this authentication method to work when using swordSWORD. Sort SWORD relies on username and password based authentication and is entirely incapable of supporting shibboleth. This option allows you to authenticate username and passwords for sword SWORD sessions with out adding another authentication method onto the stack. You will need to ensure that a user has a password. One way to do that is to create the user via the create-administrator command line command and then edit their permissions.

firstname-header

Example Value:

firstname-header = SHIB_GIVENNAME

Informational Note:

The HTTP header where the shibboleth will supply a user's given name. This HTTP header should be specified as an Attribute within your Shibboleth "attribute-map.xml" configuration file.

lastname-header

Example Value:

lastname-header = SHIB_SN

Informational Note:

The HTTP header where the shibboleth will supply a user's surname. This HTTP header should be specified as an Attribute within your Shibboleth "attribute-map.xml" configuration file.

eperson.metadata

Example Value:

Informational Note:

Additional user attributes mapping, multiple attributes may be stored for each user. The left side is the Shibboleth-based metadata Header and the right side is the eperson metadata field to map the attribute to.

eperson.metadata.autocreate

Example Value:

eperson.metadata.autocreate = true

Informational Note:

If the eperson metadata field is not found, should it be automatically created?

role-header

Example Value:

role-header = SHIB_SCOPED_AFFILIATION

Informational Note:

The shibboleth header to do role-based mappings (see section on roll based mapping section above)

role-header.ignore-scope

Example Value:

role-header.ignore-scope = true

Informational Note:

Weather to ignore the attribute's scope (everything after the @ sign for scoped attributes)

role-header.ignore-value

Example Value:

role-header.ignore-value = false

Informational Note:

Weather to ignore the attribute's value (everything before the @ sign for scoped attributes)

role.[affiliation-attribute]

Example Value:

Informational Note:

Mapping of affiliation values to DSpace groups. See the "Role-based Groups" section above for more info.