Shibboleth IdP and Support for SCIM?

[Bryan K. Walton]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 07:41:57PM +0000, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> > Does Shibboleth have any plans for supporting SCIM
> > ("System for Cross-domain Identity Management"), a
> > protocol for automating user provisioning to SP applications?
> 
> It would be a shim at best, as we hold none of the data that would make up the content. We're not an IDM system or a provisioning system (I wouldn't consider JIT a form of provisioning as much as a way to avoid the need for it, since provisioning doesn't scale well in a federated environment).
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone having worked on a plugin (formal or otherwise) for the IdP to support it, but if something exists I'd be interested.

Thank you Scott for the helpful reply.
This makes a lot of sense.

-Bryan