Shib 2.5, extracting contacts from metadata

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Thu Mar 1 17:17:36 GMT 2012


> I have not started to play with the new Shib 2.5 beta yet, but ContactPerson
> can show up in multiple places inside of SAML2 Metadata, so you may need
> to clarify where in the SAML 2 Metadata this ContactPerson element lies (as
> a part of the IDPSSODescriptor, part of the EntityDescriptor, or some place
> else?).  It may be necessary to document where in the metadata the
> Shibboleth SP looks for attributes?

Anything in the role issuing the user's assertion or above it in that entity is found, so there's nothing special to document, it looks in all the places it can.

-- Scott



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