We're a small-ish educational institution whose school email is through Google Apps for Education. We have contracted with an external vendor who is provisioning accounts for Google by getting a list of students from our AD who do not have an email account already provisioned. Once provisioned, the student authenticates to Google services by using their AD account credentials (which is how they access network resources while on campus).
I've been looking into saving a bit of $$ by bringing this process in-house but have been struggling while seeking tangible examples of how to go about doing this. The documentation that I did find has a deprecation warning. Is SAML still how this authentication scheme would be handled? If so, can someone help point me in the correct direction for this?
I've looked through the similar questions and none of them really seem to help.
Python and .NET are accepted solution implementations here.
There are two ways for SSO authentication.
SP-initiated
IDP-initiated
For SP-initiated on google apps you need to:
* Created a certificate and a private key using openssl toolkit or any other tool.
* Upload this certificate to the Google Apps single sign on settings.
* Give login URL to your application etc.
After saving setting on google are done. Now you need to write a code that wil accept request token from google and after parsing send it back to google app.
For code on your side you will use openSAML libraries.
You will also need a keystore(*.jks) in order to make SAML response signed.
These links will help you.
SAML token help.
See this answer.
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We want to use SSO for a group of apps (this will include GitLab, probably Drupal and a bunch of small apps I will write in Symfony for various tasks). We would like to currently use Google accounts to authenticate all apps, but because there are limits (I know you can increase them) on how many apps you can have and Google sometimes change what features are free, it would be good to have the option of using our own login down the track if needed.
I have used SimpleSAMLphp in the past with GitLab (using a database to store credentials) and it worked well. Is there a way that I can use the Google Auth as an IDP and have SimpleSAMLphp record the email address to link the accounts etc and allow me to add things like groups etc in to send down to the app when a login happens? I would put a password field in the login table in the database as well so that if we decide to move away from Google we can generate random passwords and continue without too many issues.
The information I find online is for using SimpleSAMLphp as the IDP for gsuite etc (we will be using general Google accounts, not ones in gsuite) and not the other way around. I also couldn't see any Authentication Modules for Google authentication. Are there any tutorials or instructions anywhere on this?
You can accomplish what you are asking fairly easily. Instead of integrating your SPs with Google directly, integrate them with an SSP idP you control, then set up your authentication page (i.e. the page redirected to by your authsource module) to be an SP for Google. Here's what that looks like:
vendor sp -> your SSP idP -> your login app -> your SSP SP -> google idP
This way you end up with only a single Google integration configured for all your vendor integrations. There are numerous benefits to this approach:
You aren't affected by # of integration constraints imposed by google
Since your vendor SP integrations are controlled on your own server, you can easily move to a different cloud-based idP for authentication in the future without having to re-integrate all your SPs
You can easily give your users alternate sign-in choices if you want.
You aren't constrained to SAML or protocols supported by Google. Many vendors still use proprietary token based authentication. These can easily be supported with this setup.
Happy to help with implementation details if you need it.
Please help. I'm aware there are several posts / docs about SSO implementations but I still can't seem to find one that addresses my use case - probably because I'm still new to SSO implementation.
Scenario:
I have an existing Symfony 4 application with existing users. I want so that when users log into the app, they are automatically signed into Outlook Office 365 (web). Exactly the same implementations on https://mysso.centennialcollege.ca/. Please NOTE I do not want office 365 to authorize my app using the code flow approach, rather I want office 365 to recognize users signed into my app as valid identities.
Has anyone implemented this or has ideas please?
Your question is a bit unclear. You're likely going to need to change the existing application in some manner in order to achieve true single sign-on. You'll need to ensure that authentication against the Symphony app leads to the presence of a session that can be used to trigger subsequent sessions in a SSO framework supported by O365.
In your case, I'd take a look at SAML and, more specifically, SimpleSAMLphp.
Are you affiliated with the organization you linked to in some way? Because just by looking at the login page that looks like they've already got some sort of SAML Identity Provider solution... you can just integrate your Symphony app with that IdP in that case, and correlate the principal returned to your SP application from the SAML assertion on successful authentication against the user data in your existing DB. You wouldn't have to use SSP in that case... any kind of SAML middleware would work.
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Full disclosure, I work at Braintree. If you have any further questions, I recommend contacting support
Braintree is a full-stack payments solution. In order to pass a client token on your client-side, you'll need to first generate a client token on your server, then pass it to your client. As an example, here's how you'd generate one in Ruby:
#client_token = gateway.client_token.generate
Alternatively, you can use a tokenization key for client authentication. This is a static key with reduced privileges, but still can authenticate your client to work with Braintree's servers. You can find your tokenization key in the Control Panel.
I recommend reviewing the [Getting Started documentation][get], as there is a lot of great information and images to help illustrate getting Braintree integrated. You could also check out some of the end-to-end examples for full-context of an example integration.
I am implementing Single Sign On through SAML. For this, I need an IDP (Identity Provider) which can be installed on-premise. Can you provide me the list of IDP's available and their licence Cost and supported platform? I searched and found like Gluu, Shibboleth but not finding the exact. Please help me out.
Thanks in Advance.
Refer SAML-based products and services.
I have used shibboleth and simpleSAMLphp - both open source - both work.
If you want to pay, then Ping Federate, ADFS, OpenAM and Auth0 are all good options.
I do not want to share our user identity with anyone else. We are using Progress Open Edge Database to store user id and password and authenticate from there.
Is there any way that we install IDP on-premise where our user identities should not be shared in cloud rather it is in our network?
I am using OneLogin but it allows to share user id with themseleves but i do not want to share user id with any IDP, instead it should be on my network, that is why i am lokking for an IDP which can be installed on-premise.
A little old post but maybe someone else looking for an answer can benefit. There are many Identity Providers available out there. It depends on your use case which one you should go with and if you need an open source or if you want full support for it.
If your use case requires you to support all the IAM features with easy to configure UI then Keycloak and miniOrange are the ones I would recommend. Keycloak is open source and miniOrange charges for support if you need it. There are others like Shibboleth and SimpleSAMLphp but they don't have an intuitive and easy to use UI and you will have make changes in their config files directly.
As you already pointed above since you don't have any cost issues then you can check out ADFS and Ping Federate.
My best choices will be:
Paid : PingIdentity
Free (as in community) : WSO2 IS, Forgerock OpenAM, Redhat Keycloak
Free : SAMLphp, ADFS (you paid for the servers anyway)
I am using Azure MobileServiceClient to authenticate with a mobile app. I want to enable a secure logout function, which involves deleting the cookies created by the web component. Otherwise anyone selecting "Login" will simply get logged in if there's an unexpired cookie lurking around. Deleting the cookies is working great.
Unfortunately, it means that a user returning to the same provider on the same device has to provide their username again (clearly, I don't want to store their password).
I found out how to make it work with Google. (Google OpenId doc) I simply provide a dictionary of parameters to the LoginAsync method. That dictionary contains the key "login_hint" and the user's email address (which, btw, has to be valid to work).
This doesn't seem to work for Facebook, Microsoft or Twitter accounts and I don't know why. I read a document that said that "login_hint" or "username" was supported by convention, but none of that seems to work.
Anyone have any experience (even a completely different approach) with this they can share?
TIA.
In order to implement IdP provided solutions like that, you need to move to a client-flow authentication. Client-Flow is when you use the IdP provided SDK to authenticate the user. Once the IdP has given you a token, you pass that token (silently) to Azure Mobile Apps to exchange it for a ZUMO token that you can use with the Azure Mobile Apps service.
Once you have the client-flow enabled, you can do anything that the IdP (Facebook, Google, etc.) will allow you to do. It's not really an Azure Mobile problem - more of an IdP problem.