Shibboleth Developers

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Alistair Young wrote:

> So the SP then knows to trust an ePTID assertion from a particular IdP for
> a particular user and to allow it to unlock personal info.
>
> Seems really compilcated when the SP could just opt of Shibboleth and
> provide a login service.

Many organizations report that their #1 helpdesk cost is resetting 
forgotten passwords.  If the SP can avoid that cost by relying on an IdP 
to do it, wouldn't that make sense?

> Then again, Shibboleth doesn't support this so is such a profile on the 
> cards?

Sorry, support what?

 - RL "Bob"