One of the most widely adopted unique identifiers in higher education federated identity management is eduPersonPrincipalName (ePPN), defined as part of the eduPerson LDAP schema established by Internet2’s Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE-dir). Historically, ePPN is defined by a campus and includes a local, unique identifier (netID) scoped at the campus domain, e.g. netID@university.edu.
Integrating eduPerson Schema ePPN with Cirrus Identity
Posted by
Dedra Chamberlin on Jul 23, 2015 9:00:00 PM
Topics: Higher Education, OpenID Connenct, SAML, Federated Identity Management, EdTech