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It was really just a convention we picked for the affiliations - to have a single "word" in all caps with no delimiters. Part of the reasoning for that was to distinguish them from email addresses as you suggested. I don't really remember other reasons, but I don't think that was the only one. Having amherst.edu translate to AMHERST matched the other affiliations we already had better than doing AMHERSTEDU; so, that's what we went with. Josh On Tuesday October 04, 2011, Aaron Coburn wrote: > Hello, > I have configured our VCL instance to support five different affiliations > (in addition to Local and Global), each of which uses Shibboleth to > authenticate. Everything works smoothly, but I'm wondering why the default > configuration removes the .edu from the corresponding Shibboleth attribute > (eppn) in order to construct the affiliation name? (See around line > 113-116 in shibauth/index.php) The result is that group affiliation lists > look like this: > > user1@AMHERST > user2@MTHOLYOKE > user3@SMITH > etc. > > Similarly, groups might look like this: > > admin@AMHERST > chemistry@HAMPSHIRE > math@SMITH > math@UMASS > etc. > > Was the intention simply to distinguish the user and group lists from > actual email addresses? Clearly, the VCL user/group name + affiliation > would not always map cleanly to a real email address, but I was wondering > if there was any other reason for this choice. > > Thanks, > Aaron Coburn > > > -- > Aaron Coburn > Systems Administrator and Programmer > Academic Technology Services, Amherst College > (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6LWnIACgkQV/LQcNdtPQN2bACfaoNZ/dWrc0GH+FllXG3+NNjJ YdsAnA+NSpgx91F2FWjjbTGwHvL8ft9x =/saH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
