Table of Terms

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exclude Table of Terms

Campus Identity Reps, Campus Identity Representatives

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Temporarily disable a UH Username and disable Help Desk and Self Service password reset functions.  A UH Username is disabled for administrative or security reasons.  The UH IT Security Officer is notified and is generally the one responsible for working with the owner of the UH Username. 

External Identities

 External Identities are Identities that are not managed by the UH's Identity Management System (UHIMS).  See Social Identities and Federated Identities.

Federated Identities

 A federation is a group of identity providers that agree upon a standard of operations, interactions, frameworks, goals, etc.  This federation can be point-to-point or via a formal federation framework (such as the InCommon Federation, of which UH is a member).  This is the type of Identity most familiar to academic institutions, and is often considered an External Identity.

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IdP IdP

In a trust federation such as the InCommon Federation the Identity Provider is the service that a member provides for authentication users.  The purpose of the IdP is to allow users use University credentials (UH Username and pwd) to successfully authenticate and access services provided by a Service Provider.  Such services can include wiki spaces, portals, access to electronic content, learning management resource, etc no matter who in the federation is hosting the services.

Institutional Identity

 An Identity that is managed with UH's Identity Management System (UHIMS).  

Internal Application Identity

 An Identity that is managed within a single application.  It is known only within the application, and any linking to other Identities is done by the application. This Identity would always be considered an Internal Identity.

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SP SP

An application can control access to resources by determining if an individual is listed in a role (e.g. student, faculty or staff) or is included in a Grouper group.

Social Identities

There are many social networking sites, the most popular include: Facebook, Google, and Twitter. These providers offer users self-service creation of Identities, which can then be used to access other services. These are almost always considered External Identities.

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