I have installed Shibboleth as a Service Provider on one of my servers. We provider software as a service to universities. What I'm wondering is, what's the best way to handle multiple customers with a single Service Provider instance?
I came across this:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/EDS10/1.+Overview
But I don't want to display a list of schools that are in our network to students. Is there a way to configure Shibboleth to automatically know who the customer is via the XML configuration rather than using the Embedded Discovery Service?
The only way of doing that is to have a sub-domain for each of your customers. None of other methods will guarantee that you know which customer's IdP to use to login your users.
customer1.yourservice.com,customer2.yourservice.cometc shouldn't be a big deal to configure on DNS level. But you have to keep in mind SSL certificates.