how to release uid as nameid

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Qian, Yi <yqian at ku.edu> wrote:
>
> The vendor request us to use uid  as nameid,  such as
> <saml:subject>
>     <saml:nameid>yqian</saml:nameid>
> </saml:subject>
>
> And in their metadata, they listed nameid format as
>
> <md:NameIDFormat>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:entity</md:NameIDFormat>

Those two don't match, I'm afraid. The example shown above is best
thought of as "unspecified", not "entity". The latter is the format
associated with entityIDs.

Tom