Leiden University

Leiden University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider Metadata

Leiden University's own SAML 2.0 identity-provider metadata document, authored and XML-DSig signed by Leiden and served as text/xml from login.uaccess.leidenuniv.nl. Asserts the scopes leidenuniv.nl and umail.leidenuniv.nl. This is the machine-readable contract every service Leiden federates with consumes, and it is entirely institution-operated.

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

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

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: leiden:saml-idp
name: Leiden University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider Metadata
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/leiden.png
x-operator: institution
description: Leiden University's own SAML 2.0 identity-provider metadata document, authored and XML-DSig
  signed by Leiden and served as text/xml from login.uaccess.leidenuniv.nl. Asserts the scopes leidenuniv.nl
  and umail.leidenuniv.nl. This is the machine-readable contract every service Leiden federates with consumes,
  and it is entirely institution-operated.
humanURL: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/about-us
baseURL: https://login.uaccess.leidenuniv.nl/nidp/saml2/metadata
tags:
- SAML
- Identity Federation
- SSO
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/leiden-identity-federation.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/leiden-domain-standards.yml