Single Sign On (SSO) for Your Application Using Okta

Okta Single Sign On (SSO) for Your Application miniOrange provides a ready to use solution for Your application.Single Sign on (SSO) for your application with Okta as Identity Provider and miniOrange can act as a service provider or an identity Broker.

Using our identity broker service you can easily SSO into any app. You can configure Okta IDP which supports SAML to single sign-on into apps that support SAML or any other protocols like OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT, etc. Our Identity Broker service enables cross protocol authentication. Follow the easy steps given in this guide to login using Okta.

Step 1: Configure miniOrange as SP in Okta

Note: Switch to Classic UI from Okta Developer Console, by selecting the Admin from the upper right corner then Developer Console > Classic UI

In Okta Developer site, navigate to Applications > Add Application or use following URL https://okta-domain-name/admin/apps/add-app

Okta Single Sign On SSO okta applications

Click on Create New App. A popup with sign on methods is shown. Select SAML 2.0 & click on Create

Write any appropriate App name then click Next.

For the above SAML configuration you need to get the Entity ID and ACS URL from miniOrange
Go to miniOrange Dashboard in the left navigation menu. Click on Add External IdP.

Now click on the Click here link to get miniorange metadata as shown in Screen below.

For SP -INITIATED SSO section Select Show Metadata Details.

Enter the values in basic SAML configuration as shown in below screen

Single sign on URL	ACS URL
Audience URI (SP Entity ID)	Entity ID or Issuer

Add Attribute Statement & Group Attribute Statement if required & click on Next.
Select Okta Configuration type & click on finish.
Navigate to Assignment tab from Okta. Click on Assign & select Assign to People. Select the user from the popup & click on Done. You can also assign groups if required.

Okta Single Sign On SSO assign people in app

Step 2: Configure Okta as IDP in miniOrange

Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider. Select SAML.

Now navigate to the Sign on tab from Okta & select View Setup Instructions. After selecting View Setup Instructions it will open new tab which contains Single Sign-On URL, Identity Provider Issuer & X.509 Certificate copy these data. This data is required for adding Identity Source in miniOrange.

Okta Single Sign On SSO adding identity source

Okta Single Sign On SSO saml configuration

Enter appropriate IdP Name. Also add following details

IdP Entity ID	Identity Provider Issuer from Okta
SAML SSO Login URL	Identity Provider Single Sign-On URL from Okta
X.509 Certificate	X.509 Certificate from Okta

Few other optional features that can be added to the Identity Provider(IDP) are listed in the table below:

Domain Mapping	Can be used to redirect specific domain user to specific IDP
Show IdP to Users	Enable this if you want to show this IDP to all users during Login
Send Configured Attributes	Enabling this would allow you to add attributes to be sent from IDP

Click on save.

Step 3: Test Connection

Go to Identity Providers tab.
Click on Select>>Test Connection option against the Identity Provider you configured.

On entering valid Okta credentials you will see a pop-up window which is shown in the below screen.

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<li>Hence your configuration of Okta as IDP in miniOrange is sucesssfully completed.</li>
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Step 4: Configure Your application in miniOrange

Note:

If you have already configured your application in miniOrange you can skip the following steps.

With us, You can configure application according to the the protocol it supports like SAML, OAuth, JWT, Ws-fed etc.
For example lets say the application supports SAML. Then go with the configurations Shown in SAML Application Tab.

SAML Application

Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
Go to Apps >> Manage Apps. Click on Configure Apps button.

Then click on Create App under SAML.

Search for you Application. In case you do not find your app, search for Custom SAML App.

Get the ACS URL and SP Entity ID from your application.
Enter the following values OR click on Import SP Metadata:

Service Provider Name	Choose appropriate name according to your choice
SP Entity ID or Issuer	Your Application Entity ID
ACS URL X.509 Certificate (optional)	Your Application Assertion Consumer Service URL
NameID Format	Select urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
Response Signed	Unchecked
Assertion Signed	Checked
Encrypted Assertion	Unchecked
Group policy	Default
Login Method	Password

Click on Save to configure Your applcation.
Now to get the IDP metadata of the app configured, Go to apps >> your_app >> select >> metadata tab.

Click on the Show Metadata details in the Information required to Authenticate via External IDPs section. Download the metadata XML file by clicking on Download Metadata button or copy the Metadata URL link.

You need to Upload this metadata in your application.

OAuth Application

To configure OAuth application in miniOrange, login to miniOrange Admin Console.
Go to Apps >> Manage Apps Click Configure Apps button.

Click on Create App under OAuth/OIDC. Click on Open ID Connect App .

You can add any OAuth Client app here to enable miniOrange as OAuth Server. Few popular OAuth client apps for single sign-on are Salesforce, WordPress, Joomla, Atlassian, etc.

Enter following Values:

Client Name	Add appropriate Name
Redirect URL	Get the Redirect-URL from your OAuth Client
Descrption	Add if required
Group Name	Default
Policy Name	As per your Choice
Login Method	Password

Click on Save
Now to provide the required data to OAuth client go to the app configured i.e apps >> your_app >> select >> edit.

Note: Choose the Authorization Endpoint according to the identity source you configure.

When you want to use you want to use miniOrange as OAuth identity server use this endpoint: https://{mycompany.domainname.com}/moas/idp/openidsso
If you are configuring any Identity Provider in Identity Providers Menu and not using miniOrange as IDP use this endpoint: https://{mycompany.domainname.com}/broker/login/oauth{customerid}

JWT Application

Click on Create App under JWT.

Select JWT App.

Configure the name for your application and configure Redirect-URL which tells where to send JWT response. Redirect-URL should be an endpoint on your application where you want to achieve SSO.

In case you are setting up SSO with Mobile Applications where you can't create an endpoint for Redirect or Callback URL, use below URL.

https://login.xecurify.com/moas/jwt/mobile

Click Save
To get the SSO link for your application, Go to Apps >> your_app >> select >> Edit.

Then, copy the Single Sign On Url and verify SSO setup by browsing that url.

On successful authentication, you will be redirected to configured Redirect or Callback URL with JWT token
You will need to download a certificate from App > Manage Apps, and click Certificate link against your configured application. This certificate will be used for signature validation of JWT response.

Download certificate to proceed with SSO

Step 5: Setup Multiple IDPs (Optional)

You have a choice to set multiple IDPS for Single Application, i.e integrate multiple IDP and users can select IDP accordingly from which they want to authenticate themselves. There are three different ways to authenticate users using IDP.

Login using IDP selection page: It gives users an option to Select IDP from the dropdown list during login time.
Domain Mapping: Here we map the email domains to a particular IDP. So when the user enters the Email address with a specific domain he would be redirected to the respective IDP.
App Identity Provider Mapping: This feature gives users an option to select one specific IDP for their application before login.

Note : At once you can select either of them.

A] Login using IDP selection page

You can configure multiple IDPs (Identity Providers) and give users the option to select the IDP of their choice to authenticate with.
For Example - It could be multiple AD domains belonging to different departments or multiple okta organizations.

Few usecases where customers configure multiple IDPs -

Suppose you have a product which many of your clients use and each client has their own unique IDP so you want them to SSO into your product as well using their existing IDP only. miniOrange provides a centralized way to connect with all IDPs in a very easy manner and integrate SSO into your application.
Suppose you are providing a course to many universities, each having a unique SAML, OAuth protocol supported IDP's like Shibboleth, ADFS, CAS, etc. You can provide Single Sign-On (SSO) into your course application to all these universities by integrating with all of them using a single platform provided by miniOrange.
This is the endpoint to call from your SAML application -

For Cloud IDP - https://login.xecurify.com/moas/discovery?customerId=<customer_id>

For On-Premise IDP - https://yourdomain.com/discovery?customerId=<customer_id>
You should copy the Customer Key from admin console-> Settings -> and replace it with <customer_id> here. Once configured in SP, when you initiate the login from Service Provider, a user will be redirected to IDP Selection Page listing all IDPs configured for that account.

You can see the screenshot below of the IDP Selection Page with a list of IDPs .

Note: To view the IDP in drop-down list, go to Identity Providers tab > against your configured IDP > Select >Edit , here Enable the Show IdP to Users option.

Select your IDP (Identity Provider) to login

You can also change the look and feel of this page. Login to miniOrange Admin console. Navigate to Customization -> Branding Configuration. See the below screenshot for reference-

You can customize the title of this page.
Change the logo and favicon for this page.
Change the background and button color for this page from admin UI.

B] Login via Domain Mapping

If you have multiple IDPs and you want a certain set of users to authenticate from one IdP whereas another set of users to authenticate from another IdP, based on their email domains then you can achieve this by using the following steps:- Our domain mapping feature

We have provided a Domain Mapping field under each IdP where admins can enter the domain eg. demo.com , example.com as shown in the screenshot below.

For your reference , Azure AD and Okta is being used as two different IDPs and WordPress is being used as SP. Follow the guides to set up Okta and WordPress at your end.

Once the setup is complete you can login through your Wordpress site.
Lets Say in Azure AD IDP Domain field we enter example.com and in Okta IDP Domain field we enter demo.com
So a user logging in with the example.com domain will be redirected to Azure AD IDP.

User logging in with email address having demo.com domain will be redirected to Okta IDP.

Once the user will authenticate itself through respective IDPs, it will be redirected back to Wordpress site.

C] Login via App Identity Provider Mapping

If you have multiple IDPs (identity provider) and you want a certain application user to authenticate with one IDP and other application users with another IDP then you can achieve this by our Identity Source Feature.

Go to apps >> your_app >> select >>edit.

Here You will have an option called as an Identity source.

The dropdown list would show the list of configured IDPs (Identity providers) in miniOrange Identity Providers tab and Userstore.

Select one IDP you want for this application. Click on Save.

Select IDP from which you want to authenticate users

Now the users of this application would be able to authenticate only by the IDP (Identity Provider) selected from the Identity Source dropdown list.

Step 1Configure miniOrange as SP in Okta
Step 2Configure Okta as IDP in miniOrange
Step 3Test Connection
Step 4Configure Your application in miniOrange

A] SAML Application
B] OAuth Application
C] JWT Application

Step 5Setup Multiple IDPs (optional)

A] Login using IDP selection page
B] Login via Domain Mapping
C] Login via App Identity Provider Mapping