University of Lausanne

UNIL Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)

UNIL's own Shibboleth identity provider, entityID https://aai.unil.ch/idp/shibboleth, carrying an IDPSSODescriptor with OrganizationName "unil.ch", OrganizationDisplayName "Université de Lausanne" and a shibmd:Scope of unil.ch. Registered in the SWITCHaai federation and exported to eduGAIN (confirmed present in mds.edugain.org/edugain-v2.xml on 2026-09-01). 145 distinct unil.ch entityIDs are registered in the same aggregate, including a second SAML entity at http://sts.unil.ch/adfs/services/trust and a Keycloak realm at bix.unil.ch/keycloak/realms/edu_id. Recorded as federation rather than discarded as a shared host: the entityID, the scope, the organisation and the identities are UNIL's, while the SSO endpoints run on SWITCH's edu-ID platform at unil.login.eduid.ch. Note that aai.unil.ch has no public A record — the entityID is a URI, not a fetchable host — and SWITCH runs no per-entity MDQ service, so the metadata is readable only from the published aggregates. This is not a developer API and there is no client registration.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-lausanne:unil-shibboleth-idp
name: UNIL Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
x-operator: federation
description: 'UNIL''s own Shibboleth identity provider, entityID https://aai.unil.ch/idp/shibboleth, carrying
  an IDPSSODescriptor with OrganizationName "unil.ch", OrganizationDisplayName "Université de Lausanne"
  and a shibmd:Scope of unil.ch. Registered in the SWITCHaai federation and exported to eduGAIN (confirmed
  present in mds.edugain.org/edugain-v2.xml on 2026-09-01). 145 distinct unil.ch entityIDs are registered
  in the same aggregate, including a second SAML entity at http://sts.unil.ch/adfs/services/trust and
  a Keycloak realm at bix.unil.ch/keycloak/realms/edu_id. Recorded as federation rather than discarded
  as a shared host: the entityID, the scope, the organisation and the identities are UNIL''s, while the
  SSO endpoints run on SWITCH''s edu-ID platform at unil.login.eduid.ch. Note that aai.unil.ch has no
  public A record — the entityID is a URI, not a fetchable host — and SWITCH runs no per-entity MDQ service,
  so the metadata is readable only from the published aggregates. This is not a developer API and there
  is no client registration.'
humanURL: https://www.unil.ch/ci/fr/home/menuinst/catalogue-de-services/authentification-et-comptes/authentification-aai.html
baseURL: https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai+idp.xml
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
properties:
- type: Metadata
  url: https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai+idp.xml
- type: Example
  url: examples/university-of-lausanne-shibboleth-idp-metadata-example.xml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://wiki.unil.ch/ci/books/authentification-edu-id