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The “@msu.edu” that you see when logging in to ANGEL with a CommunityID is misleading. A Sentinel custom login screen for ANGEL needs to be designed and deployed – one that somehow makes clear to users which type of credential they are using. I have this on the to-do list of projects for my team.
I should mention that the only CommunityIDs that automatically propagate to ANGEL are those belonging to people who enroll for a non-credit course through the Non Credit Registration System (NCRS). So anyone can go to http://community.idm.msu.edu and create a CommunityID account, but unless they’re enrolled through NCRS they will get an “unknown Account ID” error when logging in to ANGEL.
CommunityID is a system that is available for those who have applications or resources for which they would like to be able to authenticate (with zero assurance of identity), non-MSU-affiliated individuals. There is plumbing on the back end that needs to be done to make it work. It uses a web services interface. Please contact me offline if you’d like more information.
Jim Green
Manager, Identity Management
Academic Technology Services
phone: 432-7239
email: [log in to unmask]
From: Brian Hoort [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:31 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MSUNAG] Community ID Confusion
I?m trying to assist a colleague to get a MSU Community ID. I thought in the past that this meant you got an MSUNet ID, for lack of a better term, that had fewer permissions and no email account, but that would let someone not officially affiliated with the university collaborate with MSU colleagues on Angel, to give one example. In other words, I thought you got a neutered [log in to unmask] account. I also thought a department on campus had to initiate the request, vouch for the individual, and pay for the ID.
I just read http://techbase.msu.edu/article.asp?id=9643&service and it says nothing about getting a [log in to unmask] account. So I went through the process of signing up for a Community ID in order to clarify. I entered my personal Gmail account as requested, got a confirmation email at said account, clicked the link, answered the security question and was told the account was created. I was never given a [log in to unmask] account. I never received an email giving me such an account, either.
Logging into Angel I find I can choose Community ID as a login domain. When I choose it and click the button to login, I'm still given a form box followed by @msu.edu to login to.
What's going on? Have I misunderstood this all along, or has something changed recently? If you truly use your non-MSU email to login, why is @msu.edu still following the login choice after choosing Community ID as the domain?
Thanks for the clarification.
Brian Hoort | 517-355-3776
ANR Technology Services, User Services
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Michigan State University http://support.anr.msu.edu/ [log in to unmask]