Franchise access being authenticated by our Shibboleth IdP

Keith Carr kecarr at sgul.ac.uk
Fri Feb 24 14:44:21 GMT 2012


On 23/02/12, Peter Schober  <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> * Keith Carr <kecarr at sgul.ac.uk> [2012-02-23 18:02]:
> > So I would need to "share" a new entitlement with our SP's in order
> > to differentiate the new franchise.
> 
> No, quite the opposite. The SP shouldn't (and usually cannot) be
> involved in any of that. All the SP should care about is that the
> principal (possibly completely unknown to the SP, if no PII attributes
> are also transmitted) has been deemed elegible for accessing this SP
> by the responsible people, in accordance with any contracts that may
> exist.
> 
Ah of course - so they only ever receive the values they expect, or not and that deems whether they are entitled to access the resource.
-Keith

> 
> -peter
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