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SURF, is a federated identity management service for |
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secondary vocational-, higher education and research in the Netherlands. With SURFconext, users |
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can authenticate at services using their institutional account. Advantages of SURFconext for Service Providers: |
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- Fast and easy access for more than 1 million users.
- Certainty about identity of users.
- Less user administration.
- A single point of contact with one connection.
- A long-time trusted partner of education and research institutions.
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SURFconext also facilitates |
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the exchange of group information. Pre-defined groups |
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like student teams working on a specific course |
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Connect with ease We have a step-by-step guide to get you started. Read this so you will have a head start. Whatever you do, if you want to connect, get in touch with us so we can plan an intake so we can get to know each other.
More details Connecting to SURFconext is not complicated but you do need to prepare yourself. We have all the necessary information at your disposal in the links below.
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| There are several aspects to go through when connecting to SURFconext. From a technical point of view, read the following: |
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- the user will see a list of all institutions connected to your service
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- . If the user has an account with a connected institution, the user simply selects the institution and connects to your service with a single click. The preferred way is to let SURFconext show this page, but you can also make your own
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Getting your service to work with guest accounts and the advanced user management such as group memberships can be found here: |
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- is a service allowing you to retrieve information about users, groups and memberships of groups. As you will
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- be shown, this can make working with groups
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- and giving rights and permissions
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Besides the technical part, you will also need to go through the formal part as shown on these pages:
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If you still haven't found what you were looking for, have a look at our Frequently asked questions or get in touch by sending us a mail at support@surfconext.nl. |
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In the rest of this introduction you will find:
- A schematic overview of the relation between Service Providers, Identity Providers and SURFconext.
- An explanation in steps of the authentication flow.
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