Single Sign-On (SSO) for Apps Using SURFconext as IDP
Single Sign-On (SSO) for Apps Using SURFconext as IDP
miniOrange SSO solution allows you to login to any of your applications/websites using SURFconext as IdP (Identity Provider). In this guide we will go through step-by-step instructions on how to configure SSO between an application and SURFconext by configuring SURFconext as an Identity Provider and your application as a Service Provider.
miniOrange SSO solution also acts as an identity broker for cross protocol authentication, which means Service Provider following a particular SSO protocol can connect to an Identity Provider following some different SSO protocol like SAML,OAuth etc. Once configured successfully you will be ready to securely access your website/application using SURFconext IDP.
Steps to setup SURFconext as SAML IDP
Step 1: Configure SURFconext as IDP in miniOrange
- Login to your miniOrange Admin Console.
- From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers. Select SAML.
- Enter appropriate IdP Name. Also add following details
- Few other optional features that can be added to the Identity Provider(IDP) are listed in the table below:
- Click on save.
| IdP Entity ID | Identity Provider Issuer from SURFconext |
| SAML SSO Login URL | Identity Provider Single Sign-On URL from SURFconext |
| X.509 Certificate | X.509 Certificate from SURFconext |
| Single Logout URL [Optional] | Single Logout URL from SURFconext |
| 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 |
Step 2: Configure miniOrange as SP in SURFconext
- Login into your SURFconext SP dashboard.
- You will be presented with the WAYF (Were Are You From) screen. Select the Identity Provider that refers to the service you want to add ex: eduID.
- In the SP Dashboard window, click on add entity for test environment for Test Environment / add entity for production environment for Production Environment.
- In CREATE REGISTRATION FORM select the following options and click on Create
- 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
- In the Service Provider registration form import the Metadata URL or paste Metadata from the plugin's Service Provider Metadata tab.
- Select the Name-ID format as required.
- Enter the Logo url, Name and Description.
- Enter the required data in Administrative contact and Technical contact section.
- Once you have entered all the required data click on Publish.
- After the Test Environment / Production Environment is published, you will be presented with list of Identity Providers.
- Select SURFconext test IdP / SURFconext Mujina IDP link to get the IdP metadata.
- Copy the Test Environment / Production Environment link to fetch the IdP metadata for configuring the Service Provider.
| Protocol | SAML 2.0 |
| From existing entity | No, create blank registration form |
| Single sign on URL | ACS URL |
| Audience URI (SP Entity ID) | Entity ID or Issuer |
You have successfully configured SURFconext as SAML IdP (Identity Provider) for achieving Single Sign-On.
Step 3: Test Connection
- Go to Identity Providers tab.
- Click on Select>>Test Connection option against the Identity Provider you configured.
- Hence your configuration of SURFconext as IDP in miniOrange is successfully completed.
4. Configure Your application in miniOrange
Note:
If you have already configured your application in miniOrange you can skip the following steps.
- Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps >> Add Application.
- Click on Create App under SAML.
- Search for your 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:
- Click on Save to configure your application.
- 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.
| 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 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:
- Click on Save
- Now to provide the required data to OAuth client go to the app configured i.e apps >> your_app >> select >> edit.
- 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}
| 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 |
Note: Choose the Authorization Endpoint according to the identity source you configure.
- 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.
- 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.
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
5. Setup Multiple IDPs (Optional)
- 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.
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.
Note : At once you can select either of them.
- 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. - 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 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-
Few usecases where customers configure multiple IDPs -
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.
- 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.
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 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.
- Once the setup is complete you can login through your Wordpress site.
- So a user logging in with the demo.com domain will be redirected to the first organisation under ADFS.
- User logging in with email address having example.com domain will be redirected to the second organisation under ADFS.
- Once the user will authenticate itself through respective Organisations under ADFS, it will be redirected back to Wordpress site.
Lets say, there are two organisations under ADFS. One want to authenticate the users under the domain demo.com and other one with the domain example.com. For reference, We have taken the 2 organisations as two different IDPs and WordPress as SP. Follow the guides to set up ADFS and WordPress at your end.
- 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.
- Now the users of this application would be able to authenticate only by the IDP (Identity Provider) selected from the Identity Source dropdown list.
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.
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