eduPersonTargetedId

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/8/17, 5:42 PM, "users on behalf of Hugo Slavia" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of hugoslavia101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Quick question -- more out of curiosity -- can the 'eduPersonTargetedID' be configured to be sent as a string ---- or always
> NameID?

People mean 3-4 different things when they say "eduPersonTargetedID". Nothing that is generally alluded to in that way has an interoperable syntax that can be expressed as a string.

> Is there an alternate standard for sending persistent id as string?

If by persistent you mean in the informal sense of describing the semantics of the identifier that goes by that term in SAML, yes, there is now a new proposal to replace virtually everything done before and dump all of it.

https://wiki.oasis-open.org/security/SAMLSubjectIDAttr

-- Scott