Followup to previous question about Shibboleth 5.1.4 Attribute Authority functionality

[o haya]

Hi Scott,

THANKS!  I will take a look at the reference, and also I hope that you all
are doing well!!

Jim

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM Scott Cantor via users <users at shibboleth.net>
wrote:

> On list please.
>
> > So now we have to figure out why Shibboleth didn't like the <Attribute>
> elements....
>
> Because you gave it no rules to apply to decode those constructs in XML
> into the names of IdPAttributes to match up with the data it's returning
> internally.
>
>
> https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP5/pages/3199510553/TranscodingRuleConfiguration
>
> There is no way for an IdP to turn SAML naming, which is extremely
> arbitrary, into "mail" or "displayName", without being instructed how to do
> that, and the only rules the IdP ships with are the ones that follow the
> standard.
>
> -- Scott
>
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