After Creating a user via web service, there is an additional step to connect an account to an SSO service. The user account must be mapped to the 3rd-party authentication provider.
The required values for creating . or updating . the mapping , are the Drupal user IDare the EthosCE user ID (UID), the external identity provider's user ID (authname), and the authentication service name. The authentication service name , may vary per clientcustomer, and can be provided by a project manager. In the example below, clients customers using SAML SSO, have a value of simplesamlphp_auth.
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