Question concerning Authentication Method

[Brewer, Edward L]

To all,

I am currently running two Shibboleth 2.4.0 IdPs using Tomcat under Linux.  I am in the process of merging the two IdPs into one IdP.  In one of the IdPs I have configured it to use UsernamePassword and Previous login handlers successfully (UsernamePassword is using PasswordProtectedTransport authentication method).  In the other I am configured to use External and Previous login handler where External is also using PasswordProtectedTransport authentication method successfully.  Now, I want to put them together, however I want to control who goes to which login handler.  After consulting the documentation titled Authentication Context for the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V2.0OASIS Standard, 15 March 2005  I am considering changing the external login handler to a different auth method so that I can specifically refer to the external login handler in the relying party for certain SPs.  Unfortunately the best fit is PasswordProtectedTransport.  So, in general I am wondering how you can force a SP to use a specific login handler if they both use the same auth method?

Thanks for your time,
Lee Brewer
Lee Brewer | Application Developer | Information Technology | Vanderbilt University
lee.brewer at vanderbilt.edu | phone 615.343.2802 | it.vanderbilt.edu<http://it.vanderbilt.edu/>
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