# Adelaide University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-adelaide/saml-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Adelaide — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-adelaide/  
**Base URL:** https://au-idp.adelaide.edu.au/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://md.aaf.edu.au/

Adelaide University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0) is one of 5 APIs that [University of Adelaide](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-adelaide/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, eduGAIN, and AAF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

The institution's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider, serving machine-readable EntityDescriptor metadata from its own host. Confirmed live 2026-08-30: entityID urn:mace:federation.org.au:testfed:au-idp.adelaide.edu.au, shibmd:Scope adelaide.edu.au, signing certificate CN=au-idp.adelaide.edu.au, with HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST and POST-SimpleSign SSO bindings. Registered in the Australian Access Federation production aggregate (registrationAuthority https://aaf.edu.au) as "Adelaide University Identity Provider", alongside three Adelaide-operated service providers — the ChatMate AI platform, the Research GitLab, and the CAUDIT benchmarking system. Identity federation is institution-operated by definition and is the class this cohort most often fails to record.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://md.aaf.edu.au/
- **BaseURL** — https://au-idp.adelaide.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-adelaide/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-adelaide-saml-idp-metadata.xml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-adelaide/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-adelaide-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-adelaide/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-adelaide-education-standards.yml

## Other University of Adelaide APIs (4)

- [Adelaide Research & Scholarship REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-adelaide/dspace-rest/)
- [Adelaide Research & Scholarship OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-adelaide/dspace-oai-pmh/)
- [Adelaide Figshare Research Data Repository — Adelaide tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-adelaide/figshare-tenancy/)
- [MyUni Learning Management System (Instructure Canvas) — Adelaide tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-adelaide/myuni-canvas/)

## Tags

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

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