OpenSAML user discussion

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

> 1) Is there a way for a service provider to send an authentication 
> request for an unidentified user? For a user that the third party knows 
> nothing about, they'd need to send an authentication request with no 
> subject. In SAML2.0 that appears to be no problem, but in SAML1.1 (and 
> hence, with opensaml) I don't see a way to do this. Am I missing 
> something?

Eh, in SAML 1.1 there is no authentication request at all, hence no 
subject field to trip over ...

 - RL "Bob"