Today SWTICH released a open source (BSD licenced) tool for group administration. It is independent of federation software, but SWITCH is using Shibboleth.

The tool will solve some authorization challenges in identity management, and introduce a lightweight way of handling small and medium sized user groups.

• SWITCH Group Management Tool (GMT)

The software is implemented in PHP by Lukas Hammerle

January 10th 2007, I demoed a set of logins across three different federations using different technologies in Europe.

I demoed both SPs and IdPs located in Spain (RedIRIS) using PAPI, Norway (Feide) using SUN Access Manager and SAML 2.0 and Switzerland (SWITCH) using Shibboleth.

Five different attributes were sent between the briding elements.

The picture above is from the Feide attribute viewer showing attributes from a SWITCH test user account.

A successfull login with attribute release betwen Feide and SWITCH was performed.