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<div class="">A lot of the software that you are running is very old. Tomcat 5, Centos 5, Java 6, and Shibboleth 2.4 are all either out of support or close enough.</div>
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<div class="">I would try updating your software.</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px; font-family: monospace, monospace;" class=""><md:RequestedAttribute FriendlyName="email" isRequired="true" Name="User Id" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri"/></span></div>
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<div>This isn't a legal thing for them to ask for, for what it's worth. The NameFormat indicates the Name will be a URI, but "User Id" is not a URI(or really standardized).</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Not surprisingly when I attempt to access the SP with only a username, it fails to login, and generates this message in the logs:</span></div>
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<div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">No attribute of principal 'dcarter' can be encoded in to a NameIdentifier of required format 'urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient' for relying party
'<a href="http://foo.domain.com/" class="">foo.domain.com</a>'</span></font></div>
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<div>This indicates that the name selection process ended up choosing transient, likely because of an explicit request for a transient user nameID in metadata.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I've looked through the docs and Googled this a lot, and have seen others with a similar problem, but it's not clear to me what part of the config needs to be changed. I could pull the email address from LDAP, but since
our usernames are unique, I don't know why just hard-coding our domain to the username wouldn't work. This seems like a pretty common config that must come up, but so far I haven't found any good config examples that shows how it's done.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Any tips, pointers or other advice would be greatly appreciated. </div>
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<div>I would:</div>
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<div>1) Update your software</div>
<div>2) Ask the SP to choose a legal name, preferably using an attribute that already exists. Consider "mail" or "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:email-address". I might have the latter string off by a bit.</div>
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<div><we can jump in to help again at this point if you need it)</div>
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<div>3) Make sure their metadata properly asks for transient identifiers.</div>
<div>4) Get the right attribute encoder in place</div>
<div>5) Release the right attribute to the right SP</div>
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<div>I'd do it in that order, if you could.</div>
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<div>Take care,</div>
<div>Nate.</div>
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