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IdP (Identity Provider): A web-based system that can authenticate a user on behalf of another system called SP (for Service Provider).

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The attribute-map.xml file (as set by the "path" xml attribute) will specify which attributes are extracted from the IdP's response and the name of the request headers or attributes they will be available as (to the java code). More on this file later.

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IMPORTANT: you must specify at least one attribute whose id is "remoteUser". The Shrine SP code will look for a request attribute of that name id to populate the user name in the code (which appears in the user account "badge" at the top-right corner of the UI). It will also be used as a key for any 3rd party supplemental info, such as the Profiles API at HMS. In the present case, our attribute name fore the remoteUser is "ecommonsId" because that is why the iDP returns, along with "Email", "Firstname" and "Lastname".

<Attributes xmlns="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:attribute-map" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<!-- The 'name' attributes need to match exactly what your IdP sends in
its response to your (successful) AuthnRequest

E.g.
-->
<Attribute name="ecommonsId" id="remoteUser"/>
<Attribute name="Email" id="email"/>
<Attribute name="Firstname" id="firstname"/>
<Attribute name="Lastname" id="lastname"/>

</Attributes>

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