Admin/policy question - Shibboleth users with multiple affiliations

David Gersic dgersic at niu.edu
Thu Sep 19 14:15:23 EDT 2013


>>> On 9/19/2013 at 01:03 PM, cckweiss <ken.weiss at ucop.edu> wrote: 
> How does InCommon/Shibboleth handle people that move from one institution to
> another, or have presence at more than one institution at a time?

Shibboleth doesn't. InCommon could, I guess, but as far as I know, currently does not.


> Is there any way to ensure that there is some unique opaque identifier that
> remains associated with an individual across multiple InCommon participating
> institutions?

You'd have to get InCommon to standardize on something, then the participating organizations would have to implement it. Possible? Sure. Likely? Probably not.






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