User Provisioning in MariaDB streamlines access management (IAM) & automation of your external and internal users
across applications. miniOrange allows you to create, manage, & delete users access to on-premises, cloud, and hybrid apps
here are three major parts to setting up user sync between your database and miniOrange IdP. They are as follows:
- Part A: Adding your MariaDB Database as a User Store in miniOrange IdP
- Part B: Configuring Queries for User Provisioning
- Part C: Configuring User Provisioning & Attribute Mapping
Consider the following schema for setting up user provisioning/deprovisioning. We have used this schema to illustrate how to configure the options for a simple database. You can use this example to configure your own database as a user store in miniOrange.
Example Setup:
| Database Type |
MariaDB-10.4.14 |
| Database Name |
Wordpress |
| Database JDBC URL (for MariaDB) |
jdbc:mysql://{server-domain}:3306/wordpress |
| Table where user info is stored |
wp_users |
wp_users table description:
| Column |
Type |
Description |
| ID |
bigint(20) unsigned |
User ID column |
| user_login |
VARCHAR |
Username column |
| user_pass |
VARCHAR |
Stores password of the user; will store default password during user creation |
| display_name |
VARCHAR |
Display name of user |
| user_email |
VARCHAR |
Email address of user |
Part A: Adding your MariaDB Database as a User Store in miniOrange IdP
- Refer to steps 1-3 from this document.
Part B: Configuring User Provisioning for your Database
There are two directions in which user provisioning can be configured: Inbound (i.e. from your database into miniOrange) and Outbound (from miniOrange into your database).
Inbound provisioning deals with user import, whereas Outbound deals with user creation/deletion/update. In both cases, attribute mapping is necessary. Attribute mapping between database columns and miniOrange IdP attributes is done via a special notation. Column values are inferred by the miniOrange IdP using this notation.
- To configure user provisioning for your database, you will first have to navigate to the User Store section. Here, you will see the list of configured user stores.
- Click on the dropdown near your configured database and select ‘Edit’:
- This will open the edit page for your configured user store.
- Now you are ready to configure all the required provisioning features.
Import Users:
- This is an example of inbound provisioning. Users are imported from the database into the miniOrange default user store. The attributes to be selected are specified in the attributes section of Database as a User Store. For each attribute (except for username and password) that you want to import & map to a user in the miniOrange default user store, you must specify a SELECT query.
- You do not need to specify a SELECT query for username(user_login) and password(user_pass) column values; they are imported automatically using the column names used when setting up your database as a user store.
- In the edit user store page, scroll down until you can see the option for adding database attributes.
- Add as many input fields as required. For this example, we have 2 database columns - display_name and user_email - excluding the USERNAME and PASSWORD columns. The queries for these columns will be as follows:
- Query for Firstname → SELECT ‘##display_name##’, FIRSTNAME FROM wp_users WHERE user_name=?
- Query for Email Address → SELECT ‘##user_email##’, user_email FROM wp_users WHERE user_name=?
- The [ ‘##COLUMN_NAME##’, COLUMN_NAME ] notation in the query tells miniOrange that this field should be populated with the value of the column from the database, based on the unique username identifier.
- Your configuration should look like this after you’re done adding the queries:
Check Users:
- This query is used to check if a particular user already exists in the database. A user that already exists in the database will not be created again. The structure of this query should be such that it checks all the columns in the table that define a distinct user.
- For our example, we will compare the values of the user_login and user_email columns against the relevant fields in miniOrange:
- SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login=’##user_login##’ AND user_email=’##user_email##’
Create Users:
- These queries create a user in the database whenever a user is created in miniOrange. The query should contain the appropriate column names. Here, the password is set to a default string (that must be changed later).
- These queries use the same notation to specify the attributes that must be mapped from miniOrange IdP to the database. This is an example of outbound provisioning.
- In our example, we will sync the user_login,user_pass,display_name and user_email of the newly created user from miniOrange to the database. We will pass a default password string (‘defaultPassword123#’) to the database:
- INSERT INTO wp_users (user_email, user_pass, display_name, user_email) VALUES (‘##user_login##’, ‘defaultPassword123#’, ‘##display_name##’’,’##user_email##’)
- In this example, the [ ‘##user_login##’, ‘##display_name##’, ‘##user_email##’ ] strings will be replaced by the username, display_name, and email values of the newly created user in miniOrange.
Once you have filled in the required values, scroll down and click on 'Save' to save your current configuration.
After saving you should see the following success message:
Part C: Configuring User Provisioning and Attribute Mapping
We have successfully set up our database as a user store and entered all the queries for inbound as well as outbound provisioning. Now, we must configure the user provisioning section to activate user provisioning for our database.
Step 1: Set your database as the default user store
- Navigate to the user store section. You will be shown a list of all your configured user stores. Check if you can see the user store you set up in Part A.
- Click on the dropdown for your database entry, and select ‘Make default’.
Step 2: Navigate to the user provisioning section; from the dropdown, select ‘Database’
- You should be able to see the database attributes that we have configured in Part B. These database attributes are as yet unmapped, so the values of the ‘miniOrange Attributes’ column will be blank.
Step 3: Map the database attributes to their respective field names in miniOrange
- The database attributes can be mapped to 3 different types of attributes:
- Default User Profile Attributes
- Custom User Profile Attributes
- Custom Attributes
- For this example, all fields configured for our database are mapped to the Default User Profile Attributes.
- Map all the required attributes to their values in the miniOrange IdP. This is how the mapping will look for our example.
Step 4: Enable Provisioning Features
- Here, you have to choose which provisioning features you want to enable for your database.
- You can choose some or all of these features, as per your requirement. For this example, we will choose the basic inbound & outbound provisioning features:
Step 5: Save your configuration
- Once you have mapped your database attributes to the miniOrange IdP attributes & enabled your desired features, you can go ahead and save this configuration. If everything is properly configured, you should see the following success message:
Step 6: Test your configuration
- You can test your configuration by performing one of the actions for which you have enabled the provisioning feature. In this example, we will test it by importing database users into miniOrange.
- We will now import the users from the database into miniOrange. Navigate to Provisioning → Import Users, and select ‘Database’ from the dropdown.
- Click on ‘Import’. If the configuration was set up correctly, you should see the following message:
- You can verify if the import was successful by navigating to Users → Users List
