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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Good day,<br>I have installed and configured the Shibboleth 2.5 SP and successfully authenticated to my required IdP on their pre-production environment. We are now moving to their production environment and I have been asked why the NameID format element is not part of the SAML request. I have searched everywhere I can think of and cannot figure out where to specify the NameID format within the configuration of the SP<span style='color:#1F497D'>. </span>Here is the SAML request:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><samlp:AuthnRequest xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> AssertionConsumerServiceURL="<a href="https://my.test.com/Shibboleth.sso/SAML2/POST">https://my.test.com/Shibboleth.sso/SAML2/POST</a>"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Destination="<a href="https://some.IDP.com:443/SSORedirect/metaAlias/idp">https://some.IDP.com:443//SSORedirect/metaAlias/idp</a>"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ID="_c55077c10e20d860d4e8871ef6d49c21"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> IssueInstant="2012-09-19T13:12:53Z"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ProtocolBinding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Version="2.0"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> ><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <saml:Issuer xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"><a href="https://my.test.com%3c/saml:Issuer">https://my.test.com</saml:Issuer</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <samlp:NameIDPolicy AllowCreate="1" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'></samlp:AuthnRequest><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I added the following to the attribute-map.xml, but nothing was added to the generated SAML request as seen above.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <Attribute name="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent" id="persistent-id"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <AttributeDecoder xsi:type="NameIDAttributeDecoder" formatter="$NameQualifier!$SPNameQualifier!$Name" defaultQualifiers="true"/><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </Attribute><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jason<b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span></b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>