City University of Hong Kong

CityUHK Single Sign-On (OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0)

CityUHK's OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 authorization server on the university's own hostname auth.cityu.edu.hk, which CNAMEs to cityu.customdomains.okta.com. Serves an OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 document and an RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata document, both publicly readable, with issuer https://auth.cityu.edu.hk. The configuration is CityUHK's; the platform is Okta.

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Documentation

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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cityu/refs/heads/main/authentication/cityu-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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x-openid-configuration
https://auth.cityu.edu.hk/.well-known/openid-configuration
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x-oauth-authorization-server
https://auth.cityu.edu.hk/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: cityu:auth-oidc
name: CityUHK Single Sign-On (OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0)
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cityu.png
x-operator: tenant
description: CityUHK's OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 authorization server on the university's own hostname
  auth.cityu.edu.hk, which CNAMEs to cityu.customdomains.okta.com. Serves an OpenID Connect Discovery
  1.0 document and an RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata document, both publicly readable, with issuer
  https://auth.cityu.edu.hk. The configuration is CityUHK's; the platform is Okta.
humanURL: https://auth.cityu.edu.hk/
baseURL: https://auth.cityu.edu.hk/oauth2/v1
tags:
- Identity
- OpenID Connect
- Authentication
- Single Sign-On
tags_raw:
- Identity
- OpenID Connect
- OAuth 2.0
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: x-openid-configuration
  url: https://auth.cityu.edu.hk/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: x-oauth-authorization-server
  url: https://auth.cityu.edu.hk/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cityu-authentication.yml