[shib_auth] creating new users

[Tommy Peterson]

I am a bit confused by the following text in the documentation:
"Automatic user creation
Drupal CMS requires all users to be in its internal SQL database. If the module detects that no user exists in the database with the received Shibboleth user identifier, it creates a new (Drupal) user.
Drupal needs 3 pieces of information to create a new user:
Username
e-mail address
password
The module by default uses the username and e-mail address taken from the $_SERVER headers, see #Attribute settings right above. On new user creation a random password is generated. This can be overwritten by the user unless you disallow it by the userprotect module.
Note: if the user overwrites the password, she can log in with her username and the new password."


When I read this it appears that the user has to authenticate with Shibboleth against some other database than Drupal to get the userid and email. What if I am authenticating users against Shibboleth with the Drupal database. So, how does a new Drupal user set up an account given the first screen that they see (right now) is the default Shibboleth userid/password sign on screen? And for that matter how do they get a password reminder? Or am I reading this wrong and still have misconfigurations?

Thanks,
Tommy

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