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All of these services are implemented as administrative webflows that provide a consistent security model and support configuring flexible authentication and access control, though the currently delivered features tend to be for "IdP operator use" and assume control with IP address rules.
An The JAVA_OPTS environment variable is honored if set and passed into the command line if specialized options invoking java are required.
The SHIB_OPTS environment variable is also honored if set and is added to the end of the command line to allow for globally applying options when running most of the tools.
A special environment variable, IDP_BASE_URL, can be set to globally override the URL used to call the administrative flows from the command line tools. It defaults to "http://localhost/idp" and can also be overridden from the command line with the "-u" switch (refer to the output of each command for a complete summary of command line options).
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