University of Otago

University of Otago Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth) — Tuakiri Hosted Login

Otago's SAML 2.0 identity is published as a complete IDPSSODescriptor in the SIGNED Tuakiri NZ Access Federation metadata aggregate, under entityID https://idp.otago.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth with DisplayName "The University of Otago". Confirmed live 2026-08-30: the aggregate returns 200 and 725,866 bytes covering 82 entities, of which two mention Otago. The operator finding is the useful one and it was not previously recorded: Otago owns the entityID, but all six advertised endpoint bindings — SAML2 Redirect/POST/POST-SimpleSign for both SSO and SLO — resolve to hosted-login.tuakiri.ac.nz/hosting/otago.ac.nz/idp/..., which is REANNZ's Tuakiri Hosted Login service (tuakiri-hostedidp-ha.reannz.co.nz). Otago holds the federation identity; REANNZ runs the software. Note also that idp.otago.ac.nz does not exist in DNS — a SAML entityID is a name, not an address, and must not be read as a callable Otago host. This is browser-mediated SSO, not a self-service API: a bare GET to the Redirect/SSO binding returns 500 because it carries no AuthnRequest, which is expected and is not a fault.

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Documentation

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Documentation

https://docs.tuakiri.ac.nz/

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Authentication

https://ask.otago.ac.nz/knowledgebase/article/KA-10002700/en-us

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BaseURL

https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml

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Examples

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-otago/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-otago-saml-idp-metadata.xml

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Conformance

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-otago/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-otago-education-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-otago:tuakiri-idp
name: University of Otago Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth) — Tuakiri Hosted Login
x-operator: tenant
description: 'Otago''s SAML 2.0 identity is published as a complete IDPSSODescriptor in the SIGNED Tuakiri
  NZ Access Federation metadata aggregate, under entityID https://idp.otago.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth with
  DisplayName "The University of Otago". Confirmed live 2026-08-30: the aggregate returns 200 and 725,866
  bytes covering 82 entities, of which two mention Otago. The operator finding is the useful one and it
  was not previously recorded: Otago owns the entityID, but all six advertised endpoint bindings — SAML2
  Redirect/POST/POST-SimpleSign for both SSO and SLO — resolve to hosted-login.tuakiri.ac.nz/hosting/otago.ac.nz/idp/...,
  which is REANNZ''s Tuakiri Hosted Login service (tuakiri-hostedidp-ha.reannz.co.nz). Otago holds the
  federation identity; REANNZ runs the software. Note also that idp.otago.ac.nz does not exist in DNS
  — a SAML entityID is a name, not an address, and must not be read as a callable Otago host. This is
  browser-mediated SSO, not a self-service API: a bare GET to the Redirect/SSO binding returns 500 because
  it carries no AuthnRequest, which is expected and is not a fault.'
humanURL: https://www.reannz.co.nz/products-and-services/tuakiri/technical-information
baseURL: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
tags:
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- Tuakiri
- REANNZ
- Single Sign-On
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tuakiri.ac.nz/
- type: BaseURL
  url: https://directory.tuakiri.ac.nz/metadata/tuakiri-metadata-signed.xml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-otago-saml-idp-metadata.xml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-otago-education-standards.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: https://ask.otago.ac.nz/knowledgebase/article/KA-10002700/en-us