Shibboleth is a standards based, open source, cross organisational Single Sign On solution.

What Do I Need?

Your home organisation needs to be a member of the UK Federation and you need a web browser that supports SSL encryption (all the major browsers do).

How Do I Use It ?

To use Shibboleth, click on the 'Login via your home organisation' button at the top of the JISCMail home page at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk
You will need to map your Shibboleth ID to your JISCMail ID, so If you already have a LISTSERV® password, you will be prompted for this. Otherwise, you will be assigned a password which will be emailed to you, and you will then use this to confirm your identity.

On subsequent visits, when you click on the 'Login via your home organisation' button, you will be recognised and logged in automatically.

Further information on using Shibboleth with JISCMail is available in both PDF and MSWord format.

Who Uses Shibboleth?

See who is already using the Shibboleth login via our Shibboleth Map