City University of Hong Kong

CityUHK Shibboleth Identity Provider

CityUHK's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, running Shibboleth on the university's own host and publishing live IdP metadata with both an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor. Registered in eduGAIN via the Hong Kong Access Federation (HKAF, registration authority https://hkaf.edu.hk) under the display name "City University of Hong Kong". This is the one machine-readable contract in this profile that CityUHK operates itself rather than tenants.

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Documentation

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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cityu/refs/heads/main/authentication/cityu-authentication.yml
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Documentation
https://www.hkaf.edu.hk/

Other Resources

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x-saml-metadata
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cityu/refs/heads/main/authentication/cityu-shibboleth-idp-metadata.xml
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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cityu/refs/heads/main/conformance/cityu-education-standards-conformance.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: cityu:shibboleth-idp
name: CityUHK Shibboleth Identity Provider
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cityu.png
x-operator: institution
description: CityUHK's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, running Shibboleth on the university's own host
  and publishing live IdP metadata with both an IDPSSODescriptor and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor.
  Registered in eduGAIN via the Hong Kong Access Federation (HKAF, registration authority https://hkaf.edu.hk)
  under the display name "City University of Hong Kong". This is the one machine-readable contract in
  this profile that CityUHK operates itself rather than tenants.
humanURL: https://idp2.cityu.edu.hk/idp/shibboleth
baseURL: https://idp2.cityu.edu.hk/idp
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- eduGAIN
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: x-saml-metadata
  url: authentication/cityu-shibboleth-idp-metadata.xml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cityu-authentication.yml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/cityu-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.hkaf.edu.hk/