École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

RENATER Fédération Éducation-Recherche entity (ENS de Lyon IdP)

ENS de Lyon's Identity Provider as registered by RENATER, France's national research and education network, in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche and exported to eduGAIN. The per-entity MDQ endpoint returns the signed EntityDescriptor (registrationAuthority https://federation.renater.fr/, OrganizationName "Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon", mdui:DisplayName "ENS de Lyon" in fr and en, REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category). The MDQ service requires an Accept header of application/samlmetadata+xml. The federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind this entry is ENS de Lyon's own.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://services.renater.fr/federation/
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ens-lyon/refs/heads/main/authentication/ens-lyon-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ens-lyon/refs/heads/main/conformance/ens-lyon-domain-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ens-lyon:renater-fer-entity
name: RENATER Fédération Éducation-Recherche entity (ENS de Lyon IdP)
x-operator: federation
description: ENS de Lyon's Identity Provider as registered by RENATER, France's national research and
  education network, in the Fédération Éducation-Recherche and exported to eduGAIN. The per-entity MDQ
  endpoint returns the signed EntityDescriptor (registrationAuthority https://federation.renater.fr/,
  OrganizationName "Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon", mdui:DisplayName "ENS de Lyon" in fr and en, REFEDS
  Research & Scholarship entity category). The MDQ service requires an Accept header of application/samlmetadata+xml.
  The federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind this entry is ENS de Lyon's own.
humanURL: https://services.renater.fr/federation/
baseURL: https://mdq.federation.renater.fr/fer/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.ens-lyon.fr%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- eduGAIN
- RENATER
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://services.renater.fr/federation/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ens-lyon-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ens-lyon-domain-standards.yml