eMail-based Linking
If a university who introduces mail-based linking has used edu-ID or AAI before, special precautions have to be taken in order to maintain backwards compatibility of the user accounts. The attributes for a user, which are fetched via the Attribute Provider API (AP-API) must contain the identifier swissEduPersonUniqueID for all users with an existing account.
Example of an email-based linking flow
In the example below an affiliation to the Organization SLSP is created by adding an email address matching *@slsp.ch to the edu-ID account.
we start in the my edu-ID dashboard: registered email addresses
add additional email address
enter organizational email address
organizational email address entered
email verification message received
email address verification code
email address confirmation
new organizational affiliation was sucessfully added