<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Excellent. Thanks, Scott. That clears up a lot.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2@osu.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Shib Users <users@shibboleth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 20, 2013 9:41 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: nameID question<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On 9/20/13 11:43 AM, "Mike Flynn" <<a ymailto="mailto:shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com"
href="mailto:shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com">shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>>So, in order for someone to use this, the Idp would have to do something<br>>to have this pass to my application as an attribute?<br><br>The IdP decides what goes in the Subject, possibly influenced by SP<br>metadata but mostly it's a local thing. It's not an Attribute.<br><br>> Currently, I never see this as an attribute.<br><br>Well, you see headers produced by the SP, not SAML Attributes per se. The<br>SP can turn a NameID into a header also, but you would have to create a<br>special mapping for that like any other new Attribute.<br><br>But your app layer doesn't see the distinction.<br><br>-- Scott<br><br><br>--<br>To unsubscribe from this list send an email to <a ymailto="mailto:users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net" href="mailto:users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net">users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>