Error resolving principal name

IAM David Bantz dabantz at alaska.edu
Thu Feb 26 12:39:42 EST 2015


I'm struggling with a similar situation (different vendor).  Have you
included definition of transient principal connector?

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/TransientPrincipalConnector



On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at>
wrote:

> * Morris, Andi <amorris at cardiffmet.ac.uk> [2015-02-26 14:29]:
> > 20:33:56.393 - WARN
> >
> [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.profile.saml1.AbstractSAML1ProfileHandler:568]
> - Error resolving principal name for SAML request from relying party '
> https://academic.mintel.com/shibboleth'. Cause: No information associated
> with transient identifier: _15c9b9b5bd0c3aa11d088549e802a3dd
>
> Note that this SP speaks SAML2 just fine (I just tried to log at
> http://academic.mintel.com/ via "Federated Log In"), so there should
> be no reason to use (a) use SAML1, and (b) attribute queries.
>
> While that's no explanation why the attribute query failed (which a
> Shib IDP supports by default once you have set up the SOAP port
> correctly, which seems to be the case here) you might still prefer to
> remove the reason this happens in the first place.
>
> Then you can still try to find out whether your IDP works with
> Attribute Queries (potentially involving an SP of your own, or one
> provided by someone else, e.g. the UKfederation or TestShib) or
> whether you'd like to continue supporting queries in the first place.
>
> E.g. if all you ever send to such SAML1 SPs is an eduPersonAffiliation
> and/or the common-lib-terms eduPersonEntitlement attribute value you
> might consider pushing those attributes over the browser, unencrypted.
> Then most SPs won't see a need to issue an attribute query, not even
> via SAML1.
> -peter
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