problems seemingly caused by transientID in O365

Aaron Howell aaron.howell at deakin.edu.au
Wed Aug 27 20:06:18 EDT 2014


"the SP is broken.”

The correct Microsoft term for broken is “By Design"

On 28 Aug 2014, at 1:37 am, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 8/27/14, 11:13 AM, "Rob Gorrell" <rwgorrel at uncg.edu> wrote:
>
>> So you are talking about something like:
>>
>> nameIDFormatPrecedence="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persiste
>> nt"
>>
>> But what if I have two nameid's encoded as persistent (like ImmutableID
>> and eduPersonTargetedID") and my filter releases them both, which one
>> wins? Or is that something i must control with the filter, making sure
>> i'm not releasing two nameid's of same encoded format?
>
> Yes, that would be a filter issue. That's a very unusual case, and I would
> have to conclude that at least one of them is probably not really a SAML
> persistent NameID, since such an identifier is purely opaque and the SP
> can't be allowed to care what's in it. So if it does, that's not the right
> format and the SP is broken.
>
> -- Scott
>
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