= The Plug-in Skeleton = 

The federation distribution includes a functional skeletion that illustrates handling the [FeddPluginCalls interface calls] though it does not manipulate any external testbed.  It does illustrate most of the support for creating plug-ins, including reading configuration files, creating access control databases that map to local permission structures, storing persistent state and allocating local resources.  The skeleton merely assigns an non-negative integer to each request.  The range of integers is set from a configuration file.

This page describes how to set-up and run the skeleton plug-in, as well as what it does.

== Configuration ==

These are the steps to configure the skeleton:

 * Create a configuration directory that's readable by the user that the plugin will run as (probably your uid)
 * make subdirectories in it called {{{certs}}} and {{{userconf}}}.  The {{{certs}}} directory must be writeable.
 * Copy [attachment:skel.conf] into thie configuration directory.
 * [FeddConfig#MakingaFedidCertificate Create a certificate representing a fedid] in this directory.
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