Reused usernames and persistentIds

Rhys Smith Smith at cardiff.ac.uk
Thu Oct 23 04:09:11 EDT 2014


On 23 Oct 2014, at 08:26, Ramon Pfeiffer <ramon.pfeiffer at uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
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> But as far as I can see, the IdPPersistentNameIdentifier as defined in the Shibboleth wiki [1] is based on the storedId which in turn is based on the username. Do I miss something?

You can define which attribute is used as the input to the hash - you can make it username if you want, but equally you can make it any other attribute from any of your data connectors. Just change the sourceAttributeID value.

Rhys.
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