University of Barcelona

UB SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN)

The University of Barcelona's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, published as a signed EntityDescriptor through RedIRIS SIR — the Spanish academic identity federation — and carried into eduGAIN. entityID https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp, IDPSSODescriptor, mdui:DisplayName "Universitat de Barcelona", shibmd:Scope ub.edu, registrationAuthority http://www.rediris.es/. SSO and SingleLogout services are hosted for UB at sir.rediris.es/ub/. A federation is shared by definition and the identity behind this entry is UB's; this is the institution's strongest machine-readable surface. Confirmed live 2026-09-01 (HTTP 200, text/xml, 10,980 bytes, validUntil 2026-10-01).

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Documentation
https://www.rediris.es/sir/
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Authentication
https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-barcelona:ub-idp-edugain
name: UB SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN)
x-operator: federation
description: The University of Barcelona's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, published as a signed EntityDescriptor
  through RedIRIS SIR — the Spanish academic identity federation — and carried into eduGAIN. entityID
  https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp, IDPSSODescriptor, mdui:DisplayName "Universitat de Barcelona", shibmd:Scope
  ub.edu, registrationAuthority http://www.rediris.es/. SSO and SingleLogout services are hosted for UB
  at sir.rediris.es/ub/. A federation is shared by definition and the identity behind this entry is UB's;
  this is the institution's strongest machine-readable surface. Confirmed live 2026-09-01 (HTTP 200, text/xml,
  10,980 bytes, validUntil 2026-10-01).
humanURL: https://technical.edugain.org/entities
baseURL: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- eduGAIN
- RedIRIS
- Authentication
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp