eduPersonUniqueId

Description

A long-lived, non re-assignable identifier for a person at an organization. It remains the same even if the username of the person changes.

Format

This identifier is scoped to the domain of the organization. It has the format uniqueID@domain.

The “uniqueID” portion is unique within the organization. It is a string of up to 64 alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9).

The “domain” portion is the same domain name as used to identify the users organization in other attributes, e.g. eduPersonPrincipalName and schacHomeOrganization.

Examples

eduPersonUniqueId: 28c5353b8bb34984a8bd4169ba94c606@foo.edu

Technical details

Cardinality:

Singlevalued

Entry type:

person

Short description:

Person’s long-lived, non re-assignable ID.

Notes

This attribute is only used for special purposes right now, but will be added to the next schema version. For more information about the identifier, see Person and account identifiers in Feide