2.1 What are Osaka University Personal ID and role ID ?
Under the old Campus-wide IT Authentication Platform Service, used until September 2010, multiple Personal IDs were issued to the same person belonging to several organizations and having several positions.
Such users had to log in to different systems using different Osaka University Personal IDs, which was troublesome for them. To solve this problem, under the current Campus-wide IT Authentication Platform Service that has been used since October 2010, Osaka University Personal ID used in an SSO login authentication process is limited to one per person.
A new Personal ID system has been designed so that users with different attributes in job titles and positions can log in to SSO federation systems in campus without using different IDs.
In the current Campus-wide IT Authentication Platform Service, users with multiple Osaka University Personal IDs, the ID necessary for the SSO login authentication process has been unified to the Personal ID for which personal attributes such as name and date of birth are related. Other personal attributes such as organization and job title concern the Role ID. In this way, the two types of ID are related and used in systems.
However, as an exception, new Osaka University Personal ID is issued in some cases.
Examples of issuance pattern personal ID and role ID are as follows.
Example 1 -- A person has only one job title or position.
| Job title or position |
Osaka University Personal ID |
Role ID |
| Full-time faculty or staff | u000000a | u000000a |
When a user has only one Osaka University Personal ID, usually his/her personal ID and role ID are the same.
However, in some cases, the personal ID and role ID are different.
Example 2 -- A person has several job titles or positions.
| Job title or position |
Osaka University Personal ID |
Role ID |
| Graduate student | u000001b | u000001b |
| Part-time faculty or staff | u000002c |
As shown in the above example, an additional role ID will be given to a person with more than one job title or position.
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