University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen SAML 2.0 Identity Provider

The university publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata (200, 24,737 bytes, text/xml), entityID https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata. Three ku.dk SAML entities are registered in WAYF, the Danish national research-and-education federation and Denmark's eduGAIN participant: the id.ku.dk NetIQ Access Manager IdP, its test twin t-id.ku.dk, and a Windows AD FS endpoint at federation.ku.dk (registered but firewalled — it times out from the public internet). Verified in use: kunet.ku.dk redirects to id.ku.dk/nidp/wsfed/ep to authenticate. Identity federation is institution-operated by definition and is almost never catalogued for this cohort.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://metadata.wayf.dk/birk-idp.xml
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-copenhagen/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-copenhagen-authentication.yml

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Metadata
https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-copenhagen:identity-federation
name: University of Copenhagen SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
x-operator: institution
description: 'The university publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
  (200, 24,737 bytes, text/xml), entityID https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata. Three ku.dk SAML entities
  are registered in WAYF, the Danish national research-and-education federation and Denmark''s eduGAIN
  participant: the id.ku.dk NetIQ Access Manager IdP, its test twin t-id.ku.dk, and a Windows AD FS endpoint
  at federation.ku.dk (registered but firewalled — it times out from the public internet). Verified in
  use: kunet.ku.dk redirects to id.ku.dk/nidp/wsfed/ep to authenticate. Identity federation is institution-operated
  by definition and is almost never catalogued for this cohort.'
baseURL: https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
humanURL: https://www.wayf.dk/
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- WAYF
- eduGAIN
- Institution-Operated
properties:
- type: Metadata
  url: https://id.ku.dk/nidp/saml2/metadata
- type: Documentation
  url: https://metadata.wayf.dk/birk-idp.xml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-copenhagen-authentication.yml