General/Technical Documentation
Intended Audience: Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni
Purpose
This General Documentation article will help Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni to understand InCommon/Shibboleth Single Sign On and how OSU IT participates in the InCommon Federation.
General Information
InCommon Federated Services: Shibboleth IDP is a cloud hosted identity verification system allowing O-Key account holders to use their credentials to authenticate to other federation members. Those members include but are not limited to other universities and systems run by federations of institutions or organizations that share a trust relationship.
Participation in the InCommon Federation enables an organization to use Shibboleth identity attribute sharing technologies to manage access to on-line resources that can be made available to the InCommon community. One goal of the Federation is to develop, over time, community standards for such cooperating organizations to ensure that shared attribute assertions are sufficiently robust and trustworthy to manage access to important protected resources. As the community of trust evolves, the Federation expects that participants should be able to trust each other's identity management systems and resource access management systems as they trust their own.