This page documents the list of attributes pre-approved by OSU for release to Service Providers that are members of InCommon. No additional attribute release or setup is required for this attribute set. If you only need to release this set of data for your users, no additional MOU is required.
Attribute | Description | Employee | Affiliate | Student |
---|---|---|---|---|
eduPersonAffilation | All OSU affiliations of user | YES |
YES |
NO |
eduPersonPrimaryAffiliation | Primary OSU affiliation of user | YES | YES | NO |
eduPersonPrincipalName | [email protected] | YES | YES | NO |
eduPersonPrincipalNamePrior | Any prior [email protected] | YES | YES | NO |
eduPersonScopedAffiliation | OSU affiliation of user @oregonstate.edu | YES |
YES |
NO |
eduPersonTargetedID | A unique id for each person for each Service Provider. (Intended to preserve the user's privacy) | YES | YES | NO |
Primary email address |
YES |
YES | NO | |
displayName | Full name in format Last, First Middle | YES | YES | NO |
givenName | First Name | YES | YES | NO |
sn | Last Name | YES | YES | NO |
transientID | unique identifier assigned by the service that contains no personally identifiable information | YES | YES | YES |
Oregon State supports the eduGAIN REFEDS Research & Scholarship (R&S) category. All attributes listed above are released to Research & Scholarship category Service Providers for users with an eduPersonPrimaryAffiilation of Employee, Student, or Affiliate.
The specification allows only the following values for affiliation: faculty, student, staff, alum, member, affiliate, employee, library-walk-in. OSU is not issuing the faculty, staff, alum, or library walk-in affiliations at this time. This attribute may contain multiple values.
Affiliation | osuAffiliation | Description |
---|---|---|
employee | E (employee) | All current employees of OSU including student, temporary, emeritus, and courtesy employees |
student | S (student) | Anyone meeting the Registrar definition of Student |
affiliate | O (other) | Associates of OSU |
member | N/A | Anyone in the employee, student, or affiliate affiliations |
This is the primary affiliation of the user. It maps to the affiliation displayed in the OSU Directory.
This is the gloabally unique identifier for federation through InCommon and takes the format of [email protected].
This attribute contains prior EPPNs for a user. Username changes prior to InCommon federation membership were not tracked and will not be reflected in this attribute.
This attribute contains each of the affiliation values appended with the scope of @oregonstate.edu (for example, [email protected]).
This attribute is opaque, targeted, and not human-friendly. This value does not change for a user even if username, email, or names change.
For students that have requested that their information be kept confidential, these attributes will be populated with the value "Name Withheld" or with the username of the student