<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11569" dir="ltr"><span>I am currently having a conversation with SuccessFactors / BizX with regard to their requiring that we use nameID as a unique, immutable ID token for the user. Typically we use things like targeted-id/eppn/UID etc - Attributes passed to us. I am trying to understand the following:</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11569" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11569" dir="ltr"><span>Is this appropriate?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11569" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11754">If appropriate, can I configure my SP (v2.3.1) to pass nameID to the protected resource in some fashion? Should I expect Successfactors to pass it as an attribute?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11569" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11569" dir="ltr"><span>Thanks</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1411742948922_11569" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, September 25, 2014 12:40 PM, Mike Flynn <shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9898891407"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4617">In the OASIS docs, I see this:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4587"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4586">The optional <Subject> element specifies the <b>principal </b>that is the subject of all of the (zero or more)</div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4588">statements in the assertion.</div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589">In the glossary it is defined as this:</div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv9898891407">A </span><i style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv9898891407">system entity</i><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv9898891407"> whose identity can be authenticated. [X.811]</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv9898891407"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv9898891407" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4637">What exactly is meant by system entity? Does the principal in an assertion have any association with the user specific data being passed as attributes?</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv9898891407"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv9898891407" style="" id="yiv9898891407yui_3_16_0_1_1411673842943_4589"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv9898891407">Thanks.</span></div><div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>