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[Niels van Dijk <>]

Hi

On 05/03/2011 04:28 PM, Steven Carmody wrote:
>
> The SP feature is called ""Simple" Attribute Aggregation".
>
> So, when scott.koranda logs into the wiki, the wiki obtains attributes
> describing scott from ligo.org (his idp). The SP is also configured to
> issue a SAML attribute query to the new CO instance (using one of the
> values provide by Scott's home organization to identify Scott; this is
> a collaboration environment, that value would typically be Scott's
> EPPN value).
>
> The SP aggregates the attribute values obtained form Scott's home org
> and from the CO, and presents them tot he wiki....
>
>

Note that this requires a rather specific SP: although the technique
used is part of the SAML spec, there is -as far as I am aware- only 1
known implementation: Shibboleth. This may work for you if you only need
to deal with Shib (an the SPs chooce to support it), but as soon as you
have a non shib SP this will most likely not work.
There are other ways of getting attributes though, e.g. via LDAP or by
e.g. REST based queries.

Cheers,
Niels
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