This project aims to create a connector for BigBlueButton to allow scheduling conferences for groups you are a member of. It uses federated authentication (e.g. with SAML) using simpleSAMLphp and retrieves group membership information using the VOOT protocol.
This connector interacts with an unmodified BigBlueButton using the API provided by the BigBlueButton service.
The connector is needed because BigBlueButton does not have any notion of users and groups, only conferences, moderators and attendees.
For simpleSAMLphp a system wide installation of simpleSAMLphp is recommended.
See docs/SURFconext.txt for more information on configuring simpleSAMLphp
for use with SURFconext, other identity federations will differ somewhat in
configuration.
$ git clone https://github.com/fkooman/bbbmw.git
$ sh docs/configure.sh
$ sh docs/install_dependencies.sh
If you want to use ConextGroupsOAuth2 run the following command to
initialize the database:
$ php docs/init_oauth_db.php
Copy config.php.default to config.php:
$ cp config.php.default config.php
Now you can modify it to match your configuration. Set at least the URL to the BigBlueButton API and the salt as configured in BBB.
If you want to use a simple test configuration with plain username and password
authentication use SimpleAuth and SimpleGroups and configure them in
config.php.
Set the correct SELinux labels (only for Fedora/Red Hat systems?)
$ chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t data/ tpl_c/
Allow HTTP to access the network (to contact BBB)
$ su -c 'setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on'
(The -P flag makes the setting persistent across reboots)