For complete instructions, see Connect a new Shibboleth Service Provider

In addition to the Shibboleth production system, the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University offers a test system to test the functionality or as an aid for implementation.

By contacting the IT-ServiceDesk a test user for your implementation project can be provided there and the corresponding attributes can be assigned.

The following information is required for the connection: 
 

SSO Element

<SSO entityID="https://login-test.rz.rwth-aachen.de/shibboleth"> SAML2 </SSO>

Metadata Provider

<!-- RWTH Aachen Metadaten -->
    <MetadataProvider type="XML" url="https://sso-test.rwth-aachen.de/metadata/rwth.metadata.xml" backingFilePath="rwth.metadata.xml" reloadInterval="7200">
        <MetadataFilter type="Signature" certificate="/etc/shibboleth/sso-test.pem"/>
    </MetadataProvider>

The certificate for /etc/shibboleth/sso-test.pem can be found at https://sso-test.rwth-aachen.de/metadata/sso.pem. You can also retrieve this via wget and place it directly at the destination:

wget https://sso-test.rwth-aachen.de/metadata/sso.pem -O /etc/shibboleth/sso-test.pem

This certificate must be shibd readable by the system user:

chown shibd:shibd /etc/shibboleth/sso-test.pem
chmod 664 /etc/shibboleth/sso-test.pem