OpenSAML user discussion

[Tom Scavo <>]

Prasad, can you explain a bit more what you mean by "user
provisioning"?  Surely, a SAML service provider might create a user
account on the basis of a (strong) SAML assertion returned from a
(trusted) SAML identity provider, but that seems to defeat the purpose
of a SAML browser profile altogether.

Have you looked at persistent identifiers?  Is this what you mean by
"user provisioning"?

Hope this helps,
Tom

On 9/29/05, Prasad 
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 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I came across several discussion where people believed that SAML can be
> used as a tool/protocol for User Provisioning. As far as my knowledge
> goes, and I am well familiar with SAML 1.X but less with SAML 2.0, I
> don't think User Provisioning is something that falls in SAMLs territory.
>
> Is my understanding correct or am I missing something ? Also,  can
> anyone think of any use cases where SAML (1.1 and 2.0) or Liberty
> Alliance can be leveraged for doing User Provisioning ?
>
> Thanks.
> Prasad.
>