08-15-2011
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Originally Posted by
Dr. Nick
I'm already on my way using a virtual machine one of my teachers made (SUN Linux)
I wasn't aware of Sun having a Linux variety? Not all UNIX is Linux.
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1. What Linux Distribution do you think is the best and why is that so?
Religious wars aside, which distro is "best" entirely depends on what you want to do with it. That's why different distros exist.
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Which Linux do you use and why?
I use Gentoo because it's great for software developers and general playing around with. It's not user friendly. Neither will you have to fight against any magic autoconfigurator. On the other hand there is no magic autoconfigurator.
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2. Is there a IRC channel or some chat connected to this forum?
No.
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shib-keygen
SHIB-KEYGEN(8) Shibboleth SHIB-KEYGEN(8)
NAME
shib-keygen - Generate a key pair for a Shibboleth SP
SYNOPSIS
shib-keygen [-bf] [-e entity-id] [-g group]
[-h hostname] [-o output-dir] [-u user] [-y years]
DESCRIPTION
Generate a self-signed X.509 certificate for a Shibboleth SP. By default, the certificate will be for the local fully-qualified (as
returned by "hostname --fqdn") hostname. An entity ID can be specified with the -e flag. The openssl command-line client is used to
generate the key pair. By default, the public certificate will be created in /etc/shibboleth/sp-cert.pem and the private key in
/etc/shibboleth/sp-key.pem.
OPTIONS
-b Suppress all standard error output when creating the certificate. This option is normally only used by the package build.
-e entity-id
Add entity-id (which should be a URI) as an alternative name for the certificate.
-f Remove /etc/shibboleth/sp-cert.pem and /etc/shibboleth/sp-key.pem before generating a new certificate. Without this option, if those
files already exist, shib-keygen prints an error and exits rather than overwriting them.
-g group
After generating the key and certificate, change the group ownership of the key file to this group. By default, the group used is
"_shibd".
-h hostname
Specify the fully-qualified domain name for which to generate a certificate. If this option isn't given, the hostname defaults to the
result of "hostname --fqdn".
-o output-dir
Store sp-cert.pem and sp-key.pem in the directory output-dir rather than the default of /etc/shibboleth.
-u user
After generating the key and certificate, change the ownership of the key file to this user. This is used to allow the key to be read
by a non-root user so that shibd can be run as a non-root user. By default, the key is owned by "_shibd".
-y years
The number of years for which the certificate should be valid. The default expiration time is ten years into the future.
FILES
/etc/shibboleth/sp-cert.cnf
The OpenSSL configuration file used for generating the self-signed certificate. This configuration file is generated when the script
is run and deleted afterwards.
/etc/shibboelth/sp-cert.pem
The default location of the public certificate created by this script.
/etc/shibboleth/sp-key.pem
The default location of the private key for the certificate created by this script.
These three files are stored in the directory given with -o instead, if that option is given.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Russ Allbery for Debian GNU/Linux.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2008, 2011 Russ Allbery. This manual page is hereby placed into the public domain by its author.
2.4.3 2012-02-16 SHIB-KEYGEN(8)