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The ACOnet OpenIDP with entityID |
While there are no current plans for a replacement service feel free to contact the ACOnet team to discuss your project's/service's requirements
ACOnet operates the ACOnet OpenIDP, a self-service SAML Identity Provider for members and guests of ACOnet participants. This service is open to everyone needing to access federated resources from eduID.at members who is lacking credentials at a SAML IDP known to the relevant service.
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Registration of an ACOnet OpenIDP account only provides a means to authenticate. Use of this service does not imply access to any specific resource or service, as this remains the service owner's sole responsibility. Likewise, service owners are reminded that successful authentication at any [inter-]federated SAML IdP should not necessarily be equated with successful authorization. Always protect your resources with proper access rules based on attributes provided (such as |
The prime purpose of the ACOnet OpenIDP is to allow service owners to offer their resource to their whole intended community, whether or not all members of that community already have access to a SAML Identity Provider. This removes the need for service owners to also implement local or alternative authentication methods within their resource (leading to password management and "password forgotten" support at the service), in addition to federated access via SAML. As such the ACOnet OpenIDP is part of the eduID.at Metadata, together with all other Identity Providers within eduID.at.
Services known to accept ACOnet OpenIDP identities
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If you have an account at a eduID.at member institution always use your institutional account instead of registering a new one at the OpenIDP. Save yourself the additional registration step, creating and remembering Yet Another username and password. An OpenIDP account will not give you any additional rights or permissions. If you already have registered an OpenIDP account unnecessarily please contact the owners of the services you used it with (not ACOnet, who cannot help here) and ask them to transfer your user data to your institutional account. |
These services are known to externalize their credentials management to the ACOnet OpenIDP, so they don't have to manage, keep secure and support passwords themselfs:
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