Shibboleth experience with LibApps by SpringShare

Nate Klingenstein ndk at sudonym.me
Tue May 17 23:11:22 EDT 2016


Dear Team UVic,
> This translation to claims should be fairly straight-forward, I think - but the vendor has asked that username be released as this format : 
>  
> urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient
>  
> ...which doesn't sound semantically correct, according to the SAML spec.
> 
> Thanks for any tips!
> 
I would be hard pressed to come up with a username that matched the defined semantics of a transient identifier.

There are two tactical approaches: reason with the SP, or try sending the SP something that is actually valid to see if they even notice:

I've had good success pushing back on this specific permutation just because it's so obviously nonsensical.

Hope this helps,
Nate.
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