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maxwellglast Monday at 8:59 PM1 replyview on HN

These are all features of SCIM, not of SAML. SAML only communicates user metadata on login. SCIM can be used with both SAML and OIDC.


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jpc0last Monday at 9:28 PM

You may be correct there. I seem to remember being able to handle that over SAML but could be an extension…

Regardless OIDC is authentication not authorisation. OIDC asserts who you are not what you are allowed to do, where SAML asserts what as well as who.

I mean you could hack assertions into scopes somehow and return it in the OIDC token but that’s not really standardised and everyone will just decide what they are going to add whenever they want which is at best no better than SAML using JS instead of XML.

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