title: Does the SimpleSAMLphp frontend need to be on for the service provider to act like a service provider?
body: <p>Pretty simple, setup simpleSAMLphp and went through all the configuration. </p>
  
  <p>The default simpleSAMLphp seems very 'open', and a little unprofessional (under reset password it says "Too Bad! Contact your university"). I know I could technically just edit out some of those messages as a theme, but does it actually need to be on at all? </p>
  
  <p>Or could I simply just turn the web front end off?</p>