University of Helsinki

HY Login Service — Shibboleth IdP + OpenID Connect

The University's identity provider at login.helsinki.fi, machine-readable twice over. SAML: GET /idp/shibboleth returns an EntityDescriptor with entityID https://login.helsinki.fi/shibboleth, an IDPSSODescriptor and shibmd:Scope helsinki.fi; the federation-signed copy sits in the Haka aggregate alongside fifteen helsinki.fi service providers, interfederated through eduGAIN. OIDC: /.well-known/openid-configuration returns a full discovery document — issuer https://login.helsinki.fi, endpoints under /idp/profile/oidc/, scopes openid, profile, email, groups, offline_access — releasing eduPerson, SCHAC and funetEduPerson claims alongside local hy* claims. Identity federation is the surface class universities operate by definition and almost never catalogue.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://login.helsinki.fi/idp/shibboleth

Other Resources

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OpenIDConnect
https://login.helsinki.fi/.well-known/openid-configuration
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-helsinki/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-helsinki-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-helsinki:identity-provider
name: HY Login Service — Shibboleth IdP + OpenID Connect
description: 'The University''s identity provider at login.helsinki.fi, machine-readable twice over. SAML:
  GET /idp/shibboleth returns an EntityDescriptor with entityID https://login.helsinki.fi/shibboleth,
  an IDPSSODescriptor and shibmd:Scope helsinki.fi; the federation-signed copy sits in the Haka aggregate
  alongside fifteen helsinki.fi service providers, interfederated through eduGAIN. OIDC: /.well-known/openid-configuration
  returns a full discovery document — issuer https://login.helsinki.fi, endpoints under /idp/profile/oidc/,
  scopes openid, profile, email, groups, offline_access — releasing eduPerson, SCHAC and funetEduPerson
  claims alongside local hy* claims. Identity federation is the surface class universities operate by
  definition and almost never catalogue.'
humanURL: https://login.helsinki.fi/
baseURL: https://login.helsinki.fi
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- OpenID Connect
- eduGAIN
- Haka
tags_raw:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- OpenID Connect
- eduGAIN
- Haka
- eduPerson
properties:
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: https://login.helsinki.fi/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Documentation
  url: https://login.helsinki.fi/idp/shibboleth
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-helsinki-conformance.yml