<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have an Idp that has been online with us for a while. Today a user reported this error to me:</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><h1 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma;">opensaml::<wbr>FatalProfileException</h1><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">The system encountered an error at Fri Feb 22 12:55:31 2013</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">To report this problem, please contact the site administrator at <a
href="mailto:mflynn@lynda.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">mflynn@lynda.com</a>.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">Please include the following message in any email:</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">opensaml::<wbr>FatalProfileException at (<a href="https://shib.lynda.com/Shibboleth.sso/SAML2/POST" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://shib.lynda.com/<wbr>Shibboleth.sso/SAML2/POST</a>)</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">SAML response contained an error.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">Error from identity provider:</div><strong style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">Status:</strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;"> urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:</span><wbr style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">status:Responder</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;"><strong style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">Message:</strong><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;"> No value for Name ID requested</span><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 32px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">Googling this, I see this:</span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px;">Question:</span></div><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; background-color:
transparent;"><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2">I am attempting to test SP initiated SSO and while trying to log in at</font></div></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2">the IdP I receive a FatalProfileException from Shibboleth caused by the</font></div></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2">following Response status:</font></div></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34,
34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2"><samlp:Status></font></div></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2"> <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Responder"/></font></div></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2"> <samlp:StatusMessage>No value for Name ID requested</samlp:StatusMessage></font></div></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2"></samlp:Status></font></div></span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.142857551574707px; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma; font-size:
13.142857551574707px; font-style: normal;">Answer:</div></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div><div><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2">The IdP has a bug, it's requiring a value for Format inside NameIDPolicy</font></div></div></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div><div><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2">in the SP's request.</font></div></div></span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal;"><span><div><div><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2">The answer also references a setting that the SP can use to resolve this. I assume my error is the same as above.
But why would this happen for a single user on the Idp after so much time online with us and not having an issue?</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>