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Please note that this documentation @ time of writing (10-15-2012) is to begin to build the support environment for Box.net and is not intended for rolling out the service at this time. We plan to offer the service publicly to Faculty/Staff/Students after the new year with the start of the new semester. - Lee |
About
Tufts University entered into an Internet 2 agreement with Box.net to provide cloud storage for faculty, staff, and students. This service is not expressly licensed for clinical affiliates or contractors, but is seat-licensed for anyone pertaining the following:
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The Terms of Service describes the legal agreement with Box.net.
Authentication
Tufts is using ADFS 2.0 Shibboleth to provide a single sign-on experience for users of Box.net cloud storage. We elected to go with ADFS for several reasons:
- ADFS represents a federated authentication service that will represent not only trusting within tufts, but eventually trusting external organizations also tied to the ADFS environment
- ADFS (as opposed to Shibboleth, another federated authentication service Tufts supports) ties directly to active directory. Although Box.net does not currently support OU or Security group mapping in a way that Tufts would leverage, the synergy options in the future to provide storage tied to active directory organizational units is an opportunity we wanted to leave open
By using ADFS
By using Shibboleth, users of the tufts service will be able to continue to use their Tufts Username and Tufts Password to access services that they use most frequently, which will maintain as consistent an experience as possible for our users here at Tufts.
Alternative Login
Some third party applications that use Box might not allow for SSO logins. To get around this, a user must create an additional password on their account.
This can be done by having the user browse to their Account Settings and select the Change Password link under the Authentication section. This will create an additional password for the user to login using their Tufts email and this additional password.
Access & Account Creation
Account Creation
Box.net is configured to allow anyone to self-service provision their Box.net account using their Tufts Username and Tufts Password.
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