University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSB Identity Federation (Passport / InCommon)

UCSB operates its own Shibboleth identity provider, "Passport", at passport.identity.ucsb.edu, registered in InCommon as entityID urn:mace:incommon:ucsb.edu. Its SAML 2.0 metadata is machine-readable and retrievable without credentials from the InCommon MDQ service — HTTP 200, application/samlmetadata+xml, XML-signed, probed 2026-08-30. This is the one institution-operated machine-readable surface UCSB has that is not an OpenAPI, and it is the kind of surface this catalog has historically missed for universities entirely.

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IdentityFederation
https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsb.edu
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Metadata
https://passport.identity.ucsb.edu/idp/shibboleth
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucsb/refs/heads/main/conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucsb:identity-federation
name: UCSB Identity Federation (Passport / InCommon)
description: UCSB operates its own Shibboleth identity provider, "Passport", at passport.identity.ucsb.edu,
  registered in InCommon as entityID urn:mace:incommon:ucsb.edu. Its SAML 2.0 metadata is machine-readable
  and retrievable without credentials from the InCommon MDQ service — HTTP 200, application/samlmetadata+xml,
  XML-signed, probed 2026-08-30. This is the one institution-operated machine-readable surface UCSB has
  that is not an OpenAPI, and it is the kind of surface this catalog has historically missed for universities
  entirely.
humanURL: https://passport.identity.ucsb.edu/idp/shibboleth
baseURL: https://passport.identity.ucsb.edu/idp/shibboleth
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- InCommon
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsb.edu
- type: Metadata
  url: https://passport.identity.ucsb.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml
x-metadata-url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aucsb.edu
x-audit-note: 'A host-based verdict on the InCommon MDQ URL reads "vendor" because other institutions
  resolve through the same federation service. That is the federation, not the operator: the entity described
  is urn:mace:incommon:ucsb.edu and the IdP it points at, passport.identity.ucsb.edu, is UCSB''s. baseURL
  is set to the institution-operated IdP so the verdict lands correctly; the MDQ retrieval URL is kept
  as x-metadata-url and as evidence in conformance/ucsb-conformance.yml.'