David,

You are right. All services is too heavy weight.
In Shibboleth we create filters for the services we support, which does create 
on going work.
Our policies are very particular about the release of user attributes, 
providing only the minimum for each service and controlling user groups allowed 
to access.
I was thinking of a similar approach for cas.

Ray

On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 05:34 -0800, David Gelhar wrote:
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I don't think auto-generating individual service definitions for every SP in a 
large federation is the right approach - why clutter CAS with thousands of 
(mostly) unused service definitions?

In any case, at least for InCommon, best practice is use the metadata query 
service to query individual SP entityId's as needed, so CAS never needs to 
download the full metadata file; setting up something to (periodically) 
download the entire file and build service definitions out of it seems like a 
bad idea resource-wise.

Another approach (if we're thinking of new CAS features) might be to support 
multiple mdq URLs in the same (wildcard) service definition, so you could 
effectively say "for an unknown SP, first try InCommon, then eduGAIN, then ..." 
or whatever.

On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 9:54:52 AM UTC-5 Ray Bon wrote:
What Kostas said!

Perhaps what is needed is a feature to generate service definitions (in memory) 
for each [SP] entry in federated metadata (during parsing of metadata). With 
filters, allow and deny lists could be created, attributes to release set, and 
other conditions (like MFA) could be added to the service definition.

This would be a good 4th year project.

Ray

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That is actually negating the whole point. The point is that the federated 
services registrar is the one maintaining the services metadata. The IdP on the 
other hand does not have to worry about individual services but only has to 
setup agroup service definition with a URL metadata endpoint which is regularly 
updated automatically.

In the shibboleth case, when setting up an <AttributeFilterPolicy> in 
attribute-filter.xml, one can use 
theInEntityGroup<https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP30/pages/2496987441/InEntityGroupConfiguration>
 policy rule to match the names of any of the  <EntitiesDescriptor> in the 
relevant metadata and make the rule apply toall of the SPs that are included in 
the metadata. As a result we can include something like the following:

        <AttributeFilterPolicy id="edugain">
                <PolicyRequirementRule xsi:type="AND">
                        <Rule xsi:type="InEntityGroup" 
groupID="http://edugain.org/"; />

I am not aware of a corresponding functionality in Apereo CAS which has the 
result that we must maintain a Shibboleth installation only to handle Federated 
services.

Στις Τετάρτη 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2024 στις 7:28:56 π.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης atilling 
έγραψε:
We tried to follow the same posts you've linked, we were not able to get the 
regular expression serviceId to function, always threw an error if we tried to 
use that service. We did find we could add multiple services with the same 
metadata (Like the almond and coco examples) and those are working fine. It may 
be that you need to define each service you want to work with.

On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 9:58:46 AM UTC-5 Kostas Kalevras wrote:
Hello

We 've been using CAS 6.6 with no problems as an IdP for multiple protocols 
(CAS, OIDC, SAML) while using Shibboleth for federated SAML services. We are 
using a MariaDB as our service definition data store.

We are investigating the possibility of migrating federated SAML services to 
CAS as well.

There are a lot of quite helpful references on the fawnoos blog site such 
asthis<https://fawnoos.com/2019/01/18/cas61-saml2-idp-incommon/> and 
this<https://fawnoos.com/2021/03/02/cas64-saml2-metadata-caching/>.

Our main problem is the following: We need to setup multiple federated metadata 
providers. More specifically:

  *   eduGAIN
  *   InCommon
  *   HEAL-Link
  *   Our own NRN federation

>From my understanding, the usual way to handle federated SAML services is to 
>setup a serviceId with a general regular expression and a very large 
>evaluation order as described in the InCommon 
>blogpost<https://fawnoos.com/2019/01/18/cas61-saml2-idp-incommon/>. Yet I am 
>not sure how someone could configure multiple different metadata providers at 
>the same time since the described setup will work if you only have one 
>federated metadata URL (and one corresponding service definition with a 
>general regex for the serviceId).

Has anyone configured such a setup or is aware of how we might proceed in such 
a case?

Thanks a lot


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