WordPress authentication with federated shibboleth and eppn

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/31/15, 5:16 PM, "Allan West" <allan at ufl.edu> wrote:

>My campus has lots of sites that use WordPress with shibboleth-based
>protection of content, but none so far that were set up for federated
>use with eduPersonPrincipalName (eppn) as the identifier of accounts.
>Our web developers' templates aren't making WordPress happy with eppn,
>in part because WordPress seems not to like the '@' symbol in what it
>thinks of as user names.

Don't know if it's the best or only option, but the delimiter is configurable. Independently of what the delimiter is in the assertion.

-- Scott