Multiple IDP Entity IDs with 1 IDP

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/25/13 12:27 AM, "bs_sunil" <bssunil74 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>I hope not, since those are not entityIDs.
>
>Entity Ids are correct since testa works perfectly.

That doesn't make them valid entityIDs. An entityID is a URI. And using a
random string of data is about as far from a reasonable practice as it
gets.

>The IDP metadata for testa and testb are correct.

Using a random string means you could easily have mistyped something and
not have a matching value somewhere.

> In fact they are the exact
>copy with just the entity id differing. I don't think the problem is IDP
>metadata because the error message says that it cannot find one in the
>first
>place.

And if you mistyped the entityID, you'd have the same error.

> The line "<MetadataProvider type="XML" file="idpmetadataapp2.xml"/>"
>under application override does not seem to be read by Shibboleth. Any
>thoughts?

If you want to know if it's being loaded, check your logs.

-- Scott