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Term

Definition

IDP

Identity provider, e.g. ADFS, Lifray, Schoolbox. Application that handles all user credentials and login authentication.

SP

Service provider (application), e.g. Community Portal, SynWeb

SSO

Single sign on

SLO

Single log out/off

SP initiated Login

Login that originated by the user accessing the SP (e.g. Community Portal)

IDP initiated Login

Login that is triggered when the user selects a link from the IDP(e.g. Schoolbox/Okta/OneLogin) to launch into the SP.

SP initiated Logout

Logout that is triggered by the SP (e.g. Community Portal) where the user clicks the logout button.

IDP initiated Logout

Logout that is triggered by either another SP, or the IDP. Sending logout request to all active SP sessions telling them to log this user off.

Signing Certificate

The certificate provided by the IDP to ensure the request is valid

Claim Attribute Name

The attribute tag name of which the value is being contain in. In the example below, this is defined as NetworkLogin (attribute name is case sensitive)

Code Block

language	xml
title	Sample Claim Attribute

<saml2:AttributeStatement>
	<saml2:Attribute Name="NetworkLogin" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:unspecified">
		<saml2:AttributeValue xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="xs:string">
			ahui@synergetic.net.au
		</saml2:AttributeValue>
	</saml2:Attribute>
</saml2:AttributeStatement>

Claim Attribute Value

The value provided by the IDP to find the relevant user details in the Synergetic Database. In the above code block this is defined as ahui@synergetic.net.au. The claim attribute value is then used to search for a matching user via stored procedure e.g.

Code Block

language	sql

exec spsGetUserLoginData @SelectByValue = 'ahui@synergetic.net.au'

This could either be one of the following:

iDAM Guid
iDAM Login
Network login
Config user login username
Community ID
Community GUID

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