Customizing attribute display names with the attribute registry

[Wessel, Keith]

Thanks, Scott. I'll just modify the included files, then. Yes, that's definitely the easiest route. Just didn't want to go changing something that would later complicate things from an upgrade. Sounds like this should be fine, at least for now.

Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 11:24 AM
To: Shib Users <users at shibboleth.net>
Cc: Wessel, Keith <kwessel at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: Customizing attribute display names with the attribute registry

On 3/15/22, 12:19 PM, "users on behalf of Wessel, Keith via users" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of users at shibboleth.net> wrote:

>    I could obviously just modify the XML files shipped wit the IdP 
> that contain eh attribute registry definitions, but is that a bad idea in case of future additions to those files?

We can't modify them for you on an upgrade, they're deployed once you install them. We may or may not eventually get them into a module so they get added as idpnew, but your changes won't ever be overwritten. So that's usually the sinplest way to do it.

>    I also don't know if I can/should re-define those attributes in 
> other rule files in the registry instead of modifying the file shipped with the IdP.

Redefining them is extra work, so I wouldn't.

-- Scott