The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 17/02/2022 15:01, Mail administrator, Otto Makela wrote:
> I've gotten Sympa to work pretty well under RHEL 8, except for one
> rather critical thing: our corporate-wide single sign-on, implemented
> via Shibboleth.
>
> My problem is, RHEL 8 comes with shibboleth-3.2.3-3.1 which I've
> configured and tested to work with the httpd I have on the machine.
> However, when I try to use Shibboleth with Sympa, it seems Sympa
> does not react properly to the authentication process resposes,
> and the result is that Sympa gives the error popup
>
> INTERNAL SERVER ERROR (sso_login) - Failed to get your email
> address from the authentication service.
>
> All the Sympa/Shibboleth documentation seem to be from quite many
> years ago, when Shibboleth was version 2. Just to avoid getting
> committed to an insane asylum later on, does Sympa properly
> understand Shibboleth3? Does someone here currently use it?

No clue about Shibboleth, but the log messages related to the internal server 
error might it make easier to assess the situation.

Regards
         Racke

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