Saint Mary's University
Provides SMU users SSO access to services participating in Canaries's Canadian Access Federation (http://www.canarie.ca/identity/caf)
Verify users from Saint Mary's University
Saint Mary's University is a member of Canadian Access Federation, one of the national research and education federations that share academic identity providers through eduGAIN. That means you can verify a user's affiliation with Saint Mary's University by having them sign in with their Saint Mary's University account via SAML single sign-on — no document uploads, no passwords, no identity data stored on Studid.
- Persistent identifiers
- No
- Country
- Canada
- Federation
- Canadian Access Federation
Institution details
- Organization
- Saint Mary's University
- Description
- Provides SMU users SSO access to services participating in Canaries's Canadian Access Federation (http://www.canarie.ca/identity/caf)
- Country
- Canada
- Website
- http://www.smu.ca/
- SAML Entity ID
https://caf-fsso.smu.ca/idp/shibboleth- Federation
- Canadian Access Federation
SAML capabilities
Capabilities are read from the institution's SAML metadata. An advertised format is what the IdP declares it supports — not a guarantee of what every login returns.
- support
Frequently asked questions
Can I verify that someone is affiliated with Saint Mary's University?
Yes. Saint Mary's University participates in Canadian Access Federation, which shares academic identity providers through eduGAIN. Users prove their affiliation by signing in with their Saint Mary's University account via SAML single sign-on — no document uploads, no passwords, no identity data stored on Studid.
Does Saint Mary's University support persistent identifiers?
No. Saint Mary's University only advertises transient (per-login) identifiers, so authIdentifier will typically be null. You can still confirm which institution the user logged in from via entityId.
Which country is Saint Mary's University in?
Saint Mary's University is located in Canada.
How do I verify students from Saint Mary's University?
Create a verification session via POST /v2/auth/verification, redirect the user to the returned link, and poll GET /v2/auth/verification/{id} after they authenticate at Saint Mary's University. The integration guide has a complete walkthrough.
Ready to verify users from Saint Mary's University?
Start the demo and authenticate with Saint Mary's University, or read the integration guide to wire it up in minutes.