[JIRA] Resolved: (SSPCPP-524) Default attribute-map.xml Attribute/id are misleading

[Scott Cantor (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-524?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Scott Cantor resolved SSPCPP-524.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

I wouldn't change any existing defaults until there would be a 3.0 release, and I have no plans for one.

If you prefer a different set of default mappings, I would suggest distributing one. You could even sign it and have people incorporate it along with your metadata if you like.

> Default attribute-map.xml Attribute/id are misleading
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>                 Key: SSPCPP-524
>                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-524
>             Project: Shibboleth SP - C++
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: Standard(Standard bug, may impact functionality but does not represent a security vulnerability ) 
>          Components: Attribute Resolution / Filtering
>    Affects Versions: 2.5.0
>            Reporter: Olivier Salaun
>            Assignee: Scott Cantor
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: attribute-map.xml
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> Default distributed attribute-map.xml maps SAML attributes to environment variables that are sometimes misleading. The worst example being eduPersonScopedAffiliation mapped to affiliation and eduPersonAffiliation mapped to unscoped-affiliation. 
> This is a problem because it leads to communication problems between SP admins and IdP admins OR between end users and IdP admins. Example: an SP admins tells an IdP admin that it requires the affiliation attribute whereas it means eduPersonScopedAffiliation. It goes down to end-users because an error message from an SP-protected application may tell the user what user attributes it is missing, thus allowing the end-user to contact his IdP admin.
> I knwow it's hard to change defaults, but I'd suggest you adopt a default attribute-map.xml file that keeps the attribute name as defined in eduPerson.

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