This guide consist of the following parts:
Connecting your service to SURFconext |
Technical information connecting to SURFconext |
| Basic Principles of SURFconext for Service Providers These pages give basic information about the SURFconext platform. We explain the basic principles of identity federation and central group management and explain where to get support. It also discusses the service levels associated with SURFconext and it's terminology. |
| Frequently asked questions On these pages, we answer a number of frequently asked questions. |
Introduction
SURFconext is a federated identity management service for higher education and research in the Netherlands. It handles authentication of users and exchange of group information on a central level in the Netherlands By connecting your service to SURFconext once, students, faculty, and staff of all universities and research institutes in the Netherlands can easily be given access using the account of their home institution. There is no more need to store passwords locally in your service. Furthermore, SURFconext facilitates exchange of group information to all connected services. Pre-defined groups (such as a student team working on a specific course) or ad-hoc collaborations (e.g., a number of researches working together on a paper) are defined in a central system (SURFconext Teams), from which services can fetch them to facilitate collaboration for these groups. On these pages, we will give an overview of the technical capabilities of the SURFconext platform and explain the procedures and technology required to connect your service to SURFconext. |  |