University of Zurich

University of Zurich Identity Provider (SWITCH edu-ID, tenant)

UZH's SAML 2.0 identity provider is delivered by SWITCH edu-ID as a hosted, UZH-scoped IdP and registered in the SWITCHaai federation with mdui:DisplayName "University of Zurich". The federation metadata aggregate is the machine-readable artifact: it carries the UZH IdP entity plus more than two hundred uzh.ch service-provider entities covering gitlab.uzh.ch, ezproxy.uzh.ch, the olat.uzh.ch learning platform, the exam.uzh.ch assessment estate and eduid.uzh.ch. This is UZH's largest genuinely machine-readable identity surface, and it is a tenancy rather than an operation.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html

Other Resources

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IdentityFederation
https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-zurich/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-zurich-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-zurich:eduid-idp
name: University of Zurich Identity Provider (SWITCH edu-ID, tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-basis: The entityID https://aai-idp.uzh.ch/idp/shibboleth is UZH's namespace and the shibmd:Scope
  is uzh.ch, but every SingleSignOnService and SingleLogoutService Location in the SWITCHaai federation
  metadata points at https://uzh.login.eduid.ch/idp/profile/SAML2/... — a UZH-specific hostname on SWITCH's
  hosted edu-ID platform. UZH's users and UZH's attribute policy; SWITCH's running IdP. The generic OIDC
  issuer at login.eduid.ch is shared by every Swiss institution and uzh.login.eduid.ch/.well-known/openid-configuration
  simply returns login.eduid.ch endpoints, so no SWITCH contract is saved under this slug.
description: 'UZH''s SAML 2.0 identity provider is delivered by SWITCH edu-ID as a hosted, UZH-scoped
  IdP and registered in the SWITCHaai federation with mdui:DisplayName "University of Zurich". The federation
  metadata aggregate is the machine-readable artifact: it carries the UZH IdP entity plus more than two
  hundred uzh.ch service-provider entities covering gitlab.uzh.ch, ezproxy.uzh.ch, the olat.uzh.ch learning
  platform, the exam.uzh.ch assessment estate and eduid.uzh.ch. This is UZH''s largest genuinely machine-readable
  identity surface, and it is a tenancy rather than an operation.'
humanURL: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
baseURL: https://uzh.login.eduid.ch/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
x-liveness: GET without a SAMLRequest returns 400 by design; a SAML 2.0 HTTP-Redirect SSO endpoint has
  no meaningful bare-GET response. The endpoint is published in the live SWITCHaai federation metadata
  aggregate (200 on 2026-08-30). Do not read the 400 as a dead pointer.
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- SWITCH edu-ID
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.zi.uzh.ch/en/support/identity-access/eduid-faq.html
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://metadata.aai.switch.ch/metadata.switchaai.xml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-zurich-conformance.yml