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Globus Auth Change Log for Identity Provider Data

In response to changes in information received from identity providers, Globus occasionally changes identity metadata provided to services that rely on Globus Auth. All changes are made by Globus either on request from or in consultation with the identity provider. Globus publishes these changes so consumers of the Globus platform are aware of changes in information received from Globus. Changes since 5/1/2019 are listed in the table below.

Display name

Name used to identify the identity provider in the discovery interfaces (e.g. when a user logs in via Globus Auth).

Identity Provider Specific Identifier

Globus requires identity providers to release a field corresponding to a persistent identifier that uniquely identifies a user. The expectation of consumers of the Globus Platform is that a user’s Identity Provider Specific Identifier will never change. Examples of a persistent identifier that uniquely identifies a user include eduPersonTargetedID for SAML identity providers and sub for OIDC identity providers.

Date of Change Identity Provider Change Description

08/20/2020

The Jackson Laboratory

When a user’s identity was removed and then added back to the identity provider, the identity provider changed the persistent identifier that uniquely identified the user. In order to preserve the user’s access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of the user was changed.

06/09/2020

King’s College London

Linking institutional email aliases to main identities was enabled.

04/13/2020

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

As part of transitioning from one IdP technology to another, the identity provider released a new field corresponding to the persistent identifier that uniquely identifies a user. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 1009 users was changed.

03/30/2020

EuPathDB

The domain of the identity provider was changed from eupathdb.org to veupathdb.org.

02/25/2020

Technical University of Denmark

The unique identifier of the identity provider changed due to a change in entity IDs for identity providers federated by WAYF. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 122 users was changed.

02/25/2020

University of Southern Denmark

The unique identifier of the identity provider changed due to a change in entity IDs for identity providers federated by WAYF. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 3 users was changed.

02/25/2020

Copenhagen Business School

The unique identifier of the identity provider changed due to a change in entity IDs for identity providers federated by WAYF. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 6 users were changed.

01/13/2020

eRA National Institutes of Health

The identity provider changed the case of persistent identifiers that uniquely identify users. In order to preserve access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identity of 3 users was changed.

01/09/2020

Technical University of Denmark

The unique identifier of the identity provider changed due to a change in entity IDs for identity providers federated by WAYF. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifiers of 1 user was changed.

01/09/2020

eRA National Institutes of Health

The identity provider changed the case of persistent identifiers that uniquely identify users. In order to preserve access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identity of 1 user was changed.

12/04/2019

University of British Columbia

The identity provider corrected a misconfigured persistent identifier that uniquely identifies a user. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifiers of 1 user was changed.

11/26/2019

eRA National Institutes of Health

The identity provider released a new field corresponding to the persistent identifier that uniquely identifies a user. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 163 users was changed.

09/17/2019

Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)

The display name of the identity provider was changed from Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) to Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC).

09/04/2019

The University of Melbourne

Linking institutional email aliases to main identities was enabled.

05/13/2019

British Board of Film Classification

Due to a server rollback, the identity provider changed persistent identifiers that uniquely identify users. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 392 user was changed.

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