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
01/24/2023	NCAR RDA	The identity provider was replaced, resulting in the persistent identities and usernames changing. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifiers of 12509 users were changed and the domain portion of the username changed from rda.ucar.edu to oidc.rda.ucar.edu.
12/05/2022	Binghamton University	The identity provider was upgraded, resulting in the persistent identities changing. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifiers of 29 users were changed.
11/02/2022	University of Washington	The identity provider reset a persistent identifier that uniquely identifies a user. In order to preserve the user’s access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier for 1 user was changed.
09/19/2022	Argonne LCF	The identity provider was changed, resulting in the persistent identifiers also changing. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifer for 342 users was changed.
09/01/2022	ACCESS (formerly XSEDE)	XSEDE transitioned to ACCESS using a new authentication service but with the same underlying user database. To support that transition, XSEDE identities in Globus that had not already been used with the ACCESS authentication service were updated to reflect the new domain name (access-ci.org) in the username. Additionally, the persistent identifier used by those identities was reset. This affected 81892 identities.
07/20/2022	Southern Illinois University	The identity provider reset a 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 36 users was changed.
06/10/2022	SISSA	The identity provider reset a 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 8 users was changed.
03/23/2022	Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin	The identity provider temporarily provided incorrect unique identifiers. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 1 user was changed.
03/22/2022	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	The identity provider created a new account for a single individual which resulted in the persistent identifer changing. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 1 user was changed.
03/22/2022	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility	The identity provider was changed, resulting in the persistent identifiers also changing. In order to preserve users' access to services that rely on Globus Auth, the Identity Provider Specific Identifier of 390 users were changed.
02/28/2022	University of Alabama at Birmingham	The identity provider updated a 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 1 user was changed.
01/20/2022	National Institutes of Health	The identity provider reset a 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.
10/13/2021	Barcelona Supercomputing Center	The identity provider reset a 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 5 users was changed.
08/23/2021	Ohio University	The identity provider reset a 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.
07/08/2021	Binghamton University	The identity provider reset a 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 33 users were changed.
06/14/2021	Lund University	The identity provider reset a 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 147 users were changed.
02/26/2021	National Institutes of Health	The identity provider reset a 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.
02/26/2021	University of California Irvine	The identity provider reset a 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.
02/25/2021	University of Alberta	The identity provider reset a 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 5 users were changed.
01/28/2021	Florida Atlantic University	The identity provider reset a 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 20 users were changed.
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.