Institutional Login | Shibboleth

Shibboleth is a login method for web services based on distributed authentication and authorization. It allows you to sign in once via your home institution and then access various services and licensed content from different providers independently of your location – securely and conveniently via single sign-on.

Prerequisites

TUM Students and Staff Members

All students and employees of the Technical University of Munich can log in via Shibboleth. You will need your:

Active TUM‑ID, e.g., z.B. ka21bab
@tum.de email address, e.g., firstname.name@tum.de or ka21bab@mytum.de – to log in via Shibboleth (TUM's web login service).
Password

Staff Members at the University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar (MRI)

If you are both an employee of MRI and TUM, you can use Shibboleth. You will need:

Active TUM‑ID, e.g., z.B. ka21bab
@tum.de email address, e.g., firstname.name@tum.de or ka21bab@mytum.de – to log in via Shibboleth (TUM's web login service).
Password

Please note: LRZ credentials in the format 't1234an' or your MRI account will not work.

How to Get a TUM Account?
TUM staff members receive their TUM account automatically upon appointment. MRI staff members must also consent to the transfer of their data to TUM. If this has not yet been done, please contact the MRI Human Resources Department.
IT Guidelines for Staff Members of the TUM Departments Medicine (in German)

TUM Guests

If you are both an employee of MRI and TUM, you can use Shibboleth. You will need:

Active TUM‑ID, e.g., z.B. ka21bab
@tum.de email address, e.g., firstname.name@tum.de or ka21bab@mytum.de – to log in via Shibboleth (TUM's web login service).
Password

How to Get a TUM Guest Account?

To obtain a guest account please contact your hosting institution, which will request a guest ID for you from the respective TUMonline guest administrator.

Private Persons & Externals

Due to licensing reasons, external library users cannot use Shibboleth. However, you can access our licensed e-media collections at library computers in our reading rooms.

TUM-Account: FAQ & Support

If you have questions, please contact TUM IT Support at: it-support@tum.de.

Further information about the TUM account and your login credentials can also be found in the TUM-IT FAQs.

Authentication via Shibboleth

Some providers of databases and other electronic resources offer an institutional login. In these cases, you can log in via the TUM Shibboleth service.

Proceed as follows:

First, search our portals for databases, e-books or e-journals and open the desired electronic resource.
On the provider’s entry page, look for a link to Shibboleth login. This is often labeled “Institutional Login”, “Login via your institution” or similar.
Enter your home institution as “Technische Universität München”, “TU München”, “TUM” or “Technical University of Munich”. The wording may vary. In some cases, you may first need to select a region or group: choose “German Higher Education and Research (DFN-AAI)”.
You will then be redirected to the TUM web authentication service, where you log in using your TUM account credentials.
You will subsequently be redirected back to the original provider – authenticated as a TUM member.

Shibboleth & Data Security

Authentication is done exclusively through the Technical University of Munich. TUM only verifies and confirms to the service provider that you have been correctly authenticated as a TUM member. TUM IDs and passwords are not transmitted to external service providers or stored on third-party systems.