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Wouldn't a swap installed instance use Sentinel? Alleviating the need
for such tight integration with shibboleth?

If not, Matt I may someday need to get a download from you on how we can
utilize shibboleth for authentication purposes in our web environment
here at UR.

Chris Harper
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST
University Relations / Michigan State University
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kolb [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 1:20 PM
To: Harper, Chris
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Fwd: Today's SWAP Presentation


On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Harper, Chris wrote:

> Why would it require a PID or a zPID? I see no use for that data for  
> SWAP type system. MSU NetID is unique enough...

If we integrated MSU auth with SWAP, we would be use the UUID as the  
foreign key in the system (everyone has one, they are guaranteed to be  
unique in time and space, and they never go away).

NetID on the other hand doesn't have any of those properties.  The  
person would *LOGIN* with their NetID likely through shibboleth, then  
the attributes of UUID, name, affiliation, or whatever else we need  
would be released to SWAP on a per-visit basis.

./mk
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Matt Kolb  <[log in to unmask]>
Academic Computing & Network Services
Michigan State University