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Single Sign-On (SSO) for Your Application Using Slack

Slack Single Sign On (SSO) for Your Application miniOrange provides a ready to use Single Sign On (SSO)solution for your application. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to your application using Slack account within minutes. You just need to follow the few steps given below : Firstly you need to Configure miniOrange as Service Provider (SP) in Slack, then Configure Slack as OAuth 2.0 Provider in miniOrange & Finally Configure Your application in miniOrange Plugin.By Performing this steps you will configure Single Sign On(SSO) to your application using Slack.

Step 1: Configure miniOrange as Service Provider (SP) in Slack

  • Go to https://api.slack.com/apps and log into your Slack account.
  • You will be presented with following screen. Click on Create new App.
    • Slack 1
  • You will be shown a form where you have to enter Application Name and Development Slack Workspace. Fill the form with appropriate information and click on Create App.
    • Slack 2
  • After creating the slack application, you will be brought to Application Management page. Scroll down to “App Credentials” section. Here you will find given Client ID and Client Secret for your slack application.
    • Slack 3
  • Copy these credentials in MO OAuth App configuration on corresponding fields.
  • Go to OAuth & Permissions
    • Slack 4
  • To get the Redirect URL:
    • Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
    • From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider.
      • azure ad saml Apps
    • Copy the Callback URL as Redirect URL required for next step.
      • azure ad saml Apps
  • Add Redirect URL: In slack application's Redirect URLs section, Click on Add New Redirect URL and enter the same from the MO OAuth Client. Click on Save URLs.
    • Slack 5
  • Scope: Go to OAuth & Permissions, select scope from Select Permission Scopes dropdown list and Save Changes. Identity basic is required scope.
    • Slack 6
  • Then, scroll Down to Scopes section and add necessary scopes like so and then click on Save Changes.
    Most importantly, these scopes must be same on the MO OAuth Application Configuration page.
    • Slack 6

    You have successfully completed your Slack App configurations.

Step 2: Configure Slack as OAuth 2.0 Provider in miniOrange.

  • Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
  • From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider. Select Oauth
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  • Enter the following values.
    • IdP Name Custom Provider
    IdP Display Name Choose appropriate Name
    OAuth Authorize Endpoint https://slack.com/oauth/authorize
    OAuth Access Token Endpoint https://slack.com/api/oauth.access
    OAuth Get User Info Endpoint (optional) https://slack.com/api/users.profile.get
    Client ID From step 1
    Client secret From step 1
    Scope users.profile:read

Step 3: Configure Your application in miniOrange

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 Configure Apps button.
    • azure ad saml Apps
  • Then click on SAML tab. Search for Custom App.

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  • 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

  • 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.

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  • 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.
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  • 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.

    • configure app
  • Select on OAuth/OIDC tab. 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.

    • OAuth openIDConnect app OAth AddopenIDConnect app
  • 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
    Login Method

  • Click on Save

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

    • OAuth editOpenidConnect app OAuth openidConnectData

    Note: Choice 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

  • Select External/JWT App.
    • External 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.
    • JWT app configure

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

Step 4: Login using IDP selection page (Optional)

  • 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 IDP 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 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.

    idp selection

  • 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-
    customize idp selection
  1. You can customize the title of this page.
  2. You can change the logo and favicon for this page.
  3.  You can change the background and button color for this page from admin UI.