Re: [security-services] Glossary issue with the term "Principal"

["Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

On 8/14/14, 4:35 AM, "Rainer Hoerbe" <rainer@hoerbe.at> wrote:
>
>My rationale to raise this issue was, that an "UnknownPrincipal"
>exception should have revealed without using a debugger that the cause
>was a metadata misconfiguration, not a problem with the user's login
>account.

I'm not sure I follow that as a rationale. I would not code an IdP to
return UnknownPrincipal for a metadata lookup failure. Yes, it's
technically, abstractly not incorrect, but it definitely isn't what the
code was meant to mean, and that case would be more like RequestDenied.

-- Scott