# Loughborough University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** Loughborough University — https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.lboro.ac.uk/simplesaml/saml2/idp/SSOService.php  
**Documentation:** https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/

Loughborough University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider is one of 7 APIs that [Loughborough University](https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, and Single Sign-On.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **x-saml-metadata** — http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loughborough/refs/heads/main/conformance/loughborough-conformance.yml

## Other Loughborough University APIs (6)

- [Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/library-catalogue-api/)
- [Loughborough Learn — LTI 1.3 Advantage Platform (Moodle)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/learn-lti-platform/)
- [Loughborough University Library Discovery (VuFind)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/vufind-discovery/)
- [Loughborough University Research Repository (figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/research-repository/)
- [Loughborough University Reading Lists (Talis Aspire tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/reading-lists/)
- [Loughborough University Library Hours and Bookings (Springshare LibCal tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/libcal/)

## Tags

Identity, Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/identity-federation/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/.