SAML Attribute mapping

Lehigh's SSO Identity Provider (IDP) at entityID="https://sso.cc.lehigh.edu/sso/saml2/idp/metadata.php" automatically maps account attributes which are shared with the service provider (SP) when you authenticate and login to a service, using the SAML2 protocol

Here are the default mappings based on the InCommon Federation standards and some examples -


Attribute NameEnglish NameExample
urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1usernamex057
urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3email addressx057@lehigh.edu
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.6eppn or eduPersonPrincipalNamex057@lehigh.edu
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.7eduPersonEntitlementurn:mace:dir:entitlement:common-lib-terms
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.1eduPersonAffiliationalum, employee, member, staff, faculty, student, affiliate, library-walk-in1
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.5eduPersonPrimaryAffiliationstaff
urn:oid:2.5.4.3

commonName

Test Account
urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.241displayNameTest Account
urn:oid:2.5.4.4Last Name (sn or surname)Account
urn:oid:2.5.4.42First Name (givenName)Test
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.10eduPersonTargetedIDdffd47824f4baccd481469fa428231f1f6e04
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.9eduPersonScopedAffiliationalum@lehigh.edu, staff@lehigh.edu, student@lehigh.edu
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.16eduPersonOrcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-00972

Notes:

  1. Library-walk-in isn't currently used at Lehigh.
  2. eduPersonOrcid isn't currently included in our attributes.

A good discussion of the attributes and their mapping and usage can be found in the REFEDS eduPerson standard.  The SAML Control Panel extension for Chrome and the SAML Tracer addon for firefox are excellent tools for debugging SAML login issues.

Our idp via the InCommon MDQ.

sha256 Fingerprint=90:75:76:42:A6:13:10:5F:29:44:0E:DC:32:4C:76:D0:E2:24:3F:15:E6:80:07:4E:E3:98:20:C4:E9:51:EB:BA




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