Attributes are only pulled the first time you authenticate, and then
cached.  So each service won't submit a new request for attributes, just the
initial authentication.

-Scott


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Parker Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:

> For the first time, we have a need to return user attributes for one
> application on our campus. I have everything setup and working in a test
> environment, but I am wondering about performance. Most of our applications
> that use CAS do not need any of these user attributes. If an application
> doesn't use them and isn't granted access to them in the Services Managment
> app, is an attempt still made to pull these user attributes when those apps
> authenticate?
>
> My concern is that I am pulling user attributes from a database and I would
> like to avoid a database hit for the applications that don't need the
> attributes.
>
> Thanks,
> Parker
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