suggestion, 2.5 attribute checker

[Steven Carmody]

On 2/17/12 7:04 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> On 2/17/12 4:36 PM, "Steven Carmody"<Steven_Carmody at brown.edu>  wrote:
>
>> If I accidentally include a value in the attributes attribute on my
>> AttributeChecker Handler definition that does NOT match an id value in
>> my attribute-map file, then it appears that the AttributeChecker ignores
>> that value ... if I'm configuring an SP, I might want to know that I
>> made a mistake.
>
> I think I can check, please file a RFE.

will do.

>
>> And... can the AttributeChecker write to any log file ?
>
> I don't believe it logs a warning under the typical condition using
> typical settings, so you can add that to the RFE. I'm not sure WARN is
> really the answer there, maybe INFO. WARN is more for "you should evaluate
> and check this". Users showing up without data is not going to be uncommon
> in some scenarios or something you can fix.
>

sorry for not being clearer -- I was thinking more along the lines of 
having shibd startup output a WARN if there wasn't a match.

I'll try to think of use cases where it would be helpful to have the 
AttributeChecker output msgs at run time.