A detailed description of the FPS database and the APIs is found in the FPS Database and APIs document (.pdf format).

The Friends of Penn State Account System (FPS) is a digital identity management system designed to be used by application providers from within the Penn State community to establish and manage digital identities for end-user's who do not have Penn State Access Accounts, primarily for Web-based applications. Please refer to the Welcome and Overview sections of this Web site for details.

The following minimum requirements/data elements must be provided for the creation of an FPS digital identity:

• First and last name
• E-mail address
• Password
• Password reminder question
• Password reminder answer

In addition, developers also may specify any of the data elements detailed in the FPS database and APIs FPS Database and APIs document. If an application requires additional data elements, please send e-mail to the ITS FPS project team.

To use FPS on your server, you need to a have a copy of Kerberos, and configure it to use FPS. We recommend that you use MIT Kerberos, which is freely available for download. Once you have Kerberos installed, you need to configure it. For UNIX platforms, you need to place a file in /etc called krb5.conf. For Mac OSX, the file is /Library/Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos. The content of the file is as follows:

[libdefaults]
        default_realm = fops.psu.edu
        default_keytab_name = /krb5/v5srvtab
        default_tkt_enctypes = des3-cbc-sha1 des-cbc-md5 des-cbc-crc
        default_tgs_enctypes = des3-cbc-sha1 des-cbc-md5 des-cbc-crc


[realms]
        fops.psu.edu = {
                kdc = fps.aset.psu.edu:88

                kdc= rover.offsite.psu.edu:88
        }

[domain_realm]
        yourhostname.yourdomain = fops.psu.edu

Replace yourhostname.yourdomain, with your host's fully qualified domain name.

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