Kyushu University

GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider

Kyushu University's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, registered in GakuNin — the Japanese academic access-management federation operated by NII — and exported to eduGAIN. entityID https://idp.kyushu-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth, OrganizationName "Kyushu University / 九州大学", shibmd:Scope kyushu-u.ac.jp, registered 2011-02-18 under registrationAuthority https://www.gakunin.jp. Declares SingleSignOnService over HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and the legacy Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest profile, and SingleLogoutService over HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect with async-SLO support. Two further Kyushu entities are registered as its own service providers — the ShareAid shared research-equipment reservation portal and a REDCap instance in the medical faculty. A federation is shared by definition, but the IdP behind it is the institution's, and this is the strongest machine-readable surface Kyushu operates after the OAI-PMH endpoint. One real defect found: the IdP's own metadata URL returns HTTP 200 carrying a 115-byte Shibboleth filesystem error rather than an EntityDescriptor, so the GakuNin aggregate is the only working source for this entity.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kyushu:gakunin-shibboleth-idp
name: GakuNin Shibboleth Identity Provider
x-operator: federation
description: 'Kyushu University''s own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, registered in GakuNin — the Japanese
  academic access-management federation operated by NII — and exported to eduGAIN. entityID https://idp.kyushu-u.ac.jp/idp/shibboleth,
  OrganizationName "Kyushu University / 九州大学", shibmd:Scope kyushu-u.ac.jp, registered 2011-02-18 under
  registrationAuthority https://www.gakunin.jp. Declares SingleSignOnService over HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect
  and the legacy Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest profile, and SingleLogoutService over HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect
  with async-SLO support. Two further Kyushu entities are registered as its own service providers — the
  ShareAid shared research-equipment reservation portal and a REDCap instance in the medical faculty.
  A federation is shared by definition, but the IdP behind it is the institution''s, and this is the strongest
  machine-readable surface Kyushu operates after the OAI-PMH endpoint. One real defect found: the IdP''s
  own metadata URL returns HTTP 200 carrying a 115-byte Shibboleth filesystem error rather than an EntityDescriptor,
  so the GakuNin aggregate is the only working source for this entity.'
humanURL: https://www.gakunin.jp/en/
baseURL: https://metadata.gakunin.nii.ac.jp/gakunin-metadata.xml
tags:
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Identity Federation
- GakuNin
- eduGAIN
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kyushu-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kyushu-conformance.yml