Shibboleth

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Technology Services

Help

Customer support is provided through the Technology Services Help Desk. Support for IT pros who have services protected by Shibboleth is done by email to shibboleth-mgr@illinois.edu.

Access

How to gain access:

Access to Shibboleth is available to anyone with an Urbana NetID, wireless guest users, and to people who have a departmentally created Active Directory account.

IT professionals can leverage Shibboleth to log customers into their services by following these instructions.

Available to:

  • Faculty and Staff
  • Grad Students
  • Undergrads

Description

Shibboleth provides secure login authentication to many web-based applications for customers on and off the University campus.  

Cost

There is no cost associated with this resource.

More Info

Anything else I need to know?

Users can authenticate to many services using a familiar interface and single password.  Single sign-on means users can log into many Shibboleth-protected services without having to enter their NetID and password each time.  Standards-based technology makes it easy for IT pros to integrate Shibboleth for logins into their in-house and commercially developed web applications.  Support for federation means that users can securely log into web applications hosted at other universities or in the cloud using their campus NetID and password.

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