Issue with Email Attribute Mapping when configuring a SAML user for VMWare Cloud Director

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• Tenants across VMware Cloud Director(VCD) will not be able to configure the email properly using SAML in VCD.
• The Email field in VCD environment will be mapped to the Username and you cannot change it in VCD UI. 

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1.1

Cause

 The issue is caused because the Name identifier format will be set to Email format for your current Identity Provider. 

Resolution

This is a known issue with the current versions of VCD which is supposed to be resolved in the future release. We recommend you to subscribe to the article for any future updates: Subscribe to the Article

WORKAROUND: Please contact your current Identity Provider to change the Name identifier format from Email format to Default format. After doing this change you will be able to map the email correctly for the users using SAML in VCD.