Loughborough University

Loughborough University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider

Loughborough operates its own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider — SimpleSAMLphp, Loughborough-branded, at idp.lboro.ac.uk — and is registered in the UK Access Management Federation, which feeds eduGAIN. The host CNAMEs to idp.lut.ac.uk (158.125.162.229); lut.ac.uk is Loughborough's OWN second registrable domain, retained from Loughborough University of Technology, and 158.125.0.0/16 is Loughborough's own allocation — so this CNAME is internal, not a tenancy. It is declared in 0-working/university-affiliates.json so the cohort audit's --resolve rule stops reading the university's own IdP as a lut.ac.uk tenant. The federation aggregate is the machine-readable artifact: entityID https://idp.lboro.ac.uk/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php, mdui:DisplayName "Loughborough University", shibmd:Scope lboro.ac.uk, SingleSignOnService at https://idp.lboro.ac.uk/simplesaml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php (400 without a SAMLRequest, which is the live behaviour). The university also registers a Shibboleth Service Provider, MEGS VLE, at https://megsvle.lboro.ac.uk/shibboleth. Identity federation is institution-operated by definition and is the surface class most often missed for this cohort.

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x-saml-metadata
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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loughborough/refs/heads/main/conformance/loughborough-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: loughborough:identity-federation
name: Loughborough University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
x-operator: institution
description: 'Loughborough operates its own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider — SimpleSAMLphp, Loughborough-branded,
  at idp.lboro.ac.uk — and is registered in the UK Access Management Federation, which feeds eduGAIN.
  The host CNAMEs to idp.lut.ac.uk (158.125.162.229); lut.ac.uk is Loughborough''s OWN second registrable
  domain, retained from Loughborough University of Technology, and 158.125.0.0/16 is Loughborough''s own
  allocation — so this CNAME is internal, not a tenancy. It is declared in 0-working/university-affiliates.json
  so the cohort audit''s --resolve rule stops reading the university''s own IdP as a lut.ac.uk tenant.
  The federation aggregate is the machine-readable artifact: entityID https://idp.lboro.ac.uk/simplesaml/saml2/idp/metadata.php,
  mdui:DisplayName "Loughborough University", shibmd:Scope lboro.ac.uk, SingleSignOnService at https://idp.lboro.ac.uk/simplesaml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php
  (400 without a SAMLRequest, which is the live behaviour). The university also registers a Shibboleth
  Service Provider, MEGS VLE, at https://megsvle.lboro.ac.uk/shibboleth. Identity federation is institution-operated
  by definition and is the surface class most often missed for this cohort.'
humanURL: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
baseURL: https://idp.lboro.ac.uk/simplesaml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php
tags:
- Identity
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: x-saml-metadata
  url: http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/loughborough-conformance.yml