incorporating opensso metadata and extended metadata xml files into shibboleth SP

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/19/12 3:00 PM, "csross" <cross at hccs.com> wrote:
>
>I have to talk to a new IDP with a new SP on my shib 2.4.3 solaris
>server. 
>I believe the IDP is opensso and the administrator does not have any
>experience with shibboleth as they never had any SPs running it. They sent
>me a metadata.xml file which I specified identified in the shibboleth2.xml
>file.  They also sent me an extended metadata.xml file which has a number
>of
>Attritribute name= and value.  These look nothing like what is in the
>attribute-map.xml file I use for other IDPs I contact but they run
>Shibboleth.

The SP doesn't use any of that particular information in metadata.

Obviously the attributes they're sending do have to be mapped but that
doesn't involve the metadata.

>A lot of sites I researched mentioned NameIDFormat and I see these in the
>metadata.xml and extended-metadata.xml,  but again it is in an unfamilar
>format.  Is there any relation to the entries in attritbute-map?

No.

>Does anyone have any idea how to incorporate this into Shibboleth please?

You don't need to.

-- Scott