My knowledge of these systems is not large so please forgive me if I am asking dumb questions.
I hope to achieve the following:
Idp (AD FS 2.0) -> SAML 2.0 -> Sp (simpleSAMLphp)
*I don't need anything more fancy than to simply authenticate a user.
I have attempted to configure Windows Server 2008 with AD FS 2.0 (domain A) as an Identity provider and have it handle authentication requests from a service provider on a different domain (created using simpleSAMLphp (domain B)).
The AD FS 2.0 Management application allows me to add raw meta XML from the SP to configure the idp. And my SP has the facility to do the same. So I figure that If I setup the idp (AD FS 2.0) correctly then I will simple just have to make the SP interpret the metadata of the idp.
Currently I feel that I am close to a solution (but then again I am probably wrong!). Currently it seems everything is find right up to the point when the Idp asks for your login credentials, and I enter my credentials, it appears that the session has started, but I get a 'Not Authorized - HTTP Error 401. The requested resource requires user authentication.' message after entering the correct login credentials.
Could someone please explain how to fix this? or if it's quicker a step by step setup to make AD FS 2.0 authenticate using SAML 2.0 for simply authenticating a username and password.
Thankyou in advance for any hints!
Have you established a claims provider trust within ADFS 2.0 management? Your system needs to accept claims-bearing tokens from a trusted claims provider. That is, whatever STS -- "Security Token Service" -- you have in front of your user repository. ADFS can both a "Relying Party" -- RP -- or a STS. You need both a relying party and a STS.
Check out Eugenio Pace's MSDN blog for more details:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eugeniop/archive/tags/federated+identity/
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I have created a SAML 2.0 App on okta and have finished all the configurations. I then attempt to do an authorization from my application, by doing a redirect to the okta idp ->
http://www.okta.com/(okta created token)?SAMLRequest=(encoded saml xml)
The redirect returns a 404. When I go to my admin okta console I don't see any logs for the failed attempt, which i guess makes sense since it is returning a 404, but i don't know how to figure out what is causing the 404.
Is there a way to figure out what is causing the issue?
Install SAML tracer browser extensions and try it again to confirm the SAML Response is being decoded correctly.
To address your question "Is there a way to figure out what is causing the issue?", I have repeated your SAML 2.0 authentication steps suggested by your post.
The following responses and answer will help you to "figure out what is causing the issue".
(1) Quote your post "I have created a SAML 2.0 App on okta and have finished all the configurations. I then attempt to do an authorization from my application, by doing a redirect to the okta idp ->
http://www.okta.com/(okta created token)?SAMLRequest=(encoded saml xml)"
Response:
(I) I have created a SAML 2.0 SP App on okta and have finished all the configurations as you did.
(II) I then attempt to do an authorization from my SAML SP application, by doing a redirect to the okta idp as you did.
(III) Submit the username/password of local Okta user account (e.g., john.doe#example.com) to proceed with SAML authentication.
(2) Quote your post "The redirect returns a 404. When I go to my admin okta console I don't see any logs for the failed attempt, which i guess makes sense since it is returning a 404, but i don't know how to figure out what is causing the 404."
Response:
(I) In my experiment, the redirect returns the following error message instead of a 404 error.
Sorry, you can't access SAML 2.0 SP demo because you are not assigned this app in Okta.
If you're wondering why this is happening, please contact your administrator.
If it's any consolation, we can take you to your Okta home page.
(II) Then "I go to my admin okta console" as suggested by your post,
navigate to Reports > System Log, I saw the log below.
Event Info Targets
User attempted unauthorized access to app SAML 2.0 SP demo (AppInstance)
FAILURE :
(3) Quote your question "Is there a way to figure out what is causing the issue?"
Answer:
I summarize the four (4) potential root causes of your SAML authentication failure. The top #1 potential root cause is that you uploaded the wrong okta IdP metadata file into your SAML 2.0 SP app server (see the detailed description below).
(I) Potential Issue #1:
The root cause of my issue is that my local okta user account was NOT assigned to access this SAML 2.0 App.
Resolution:
(a) Navigate to Applications > SAML 2.0 App, then click Assign > Assign to People,
(b) On the pop-up dialog box, select the local Okta user accounts (e.g., John Doe (john.doe#example.com)), click Assign, click Save and Go Back, then click Done.
(c) Repeated the above SAML 2.0 authentication steps again, I was redirected back and logged in to SAML 2.0 App successfully.
(II) Potential Issue #2:
Three (3) potential root causes of this issue are that
(a) you did NOT fill in all the correct SAML SP information of your SAML 2.0 SP app on okta.
(b) or you did NOT upload the okta IdP metadata file into your SAML 2.0 SP app server
(c) or you uploaded the wrong okta IdP metadata file into your SAML 2.0 SP app server (this is the highest probability for bringing your 404 failure, because unlike most of SAML IdPs which create only one IdP metadata file for all SAML SP apps, okta create different IdP metadata files for different SAML SP apps).
Resolution:
Regarding to root cause (II.a): You need to ensure that the following SAML SP information should be the exactly the same as the SAML SP metadata of your SAML 2.0 SP app when you create new SAML 2.0 app.
Single sign on URL should come from your SAML SP metadata, e.g.,
<md:AssertionConsumerService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://your-saml-sp-app-URL/SAML2/POST" index="1"/>
Audience URI (SP Entity ID) should also come from your SAML SP metadata, e.g.,
<md:EntityDescriptor xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata" ID="_random-string" entityID="https://your-saml-sp-app-URL/SAML2/Metadata">)
The sample SAML Settings of SAML 2.0 SP app on okta
Navigate to Applications > your SAML 2.0 App > general > SAML Settings
Single Sign On URL https://your-saml-sp-app-URL/SAML2/POST (i.e., your SAML SP AssertionConsumerService)
Recipient URL https://your-saml-sp-app-URL/SAML2/POST (i.e., your SAML SP AssertionConsumerService)
Destination URL https://your-saml-sp-app-URL/SAML2/POST (i.e., your SAML SP AssertionConsumerService)
Audience Restriction https://your-saml-sp-app-URL/SAML2/Metadata (i.e., your SAML SP entity ID)
Default Relay State
Name ID Format Unspecified
Response Signed
Assertion Signature Signed
Signature Algorithm RSA_SHA256
Digest Algorithm SHA256
Assertion Encryption Unencrypted
SAML Single Logout Disabled
authnContextClassRef PasswordProtectedTransport
Honor Force Authentication Yes
SAML Issuer ID http://www.okta.com/${org.externalKey}
Regarding to root causes (II.b) and (II.c): You need to upload the correct okta IdP metadata into your SAML 2.0 SP app server.
Note that okta creates different okta IdP metadata files for your different SAML 2.0 SP apps.
Navigate to Applications > your SAML 2.0 App > Sign On
Identity Provider metadata is available if this application supports dynamic configuration.
Click Identity Provider metadata to download the okta IdP metadata for your SAML 2.0 SP app.
Log in to your SAML 2.0 SP app, upload the okta IdP metadata into your SAML 2.0 SP app, and then complete the configuration to store the okta IdP information on your SAML 2.0 SP app server.
Hi I am trying to use SSO to authenticate my client's users directly to my website. My client's IDP is Microsoft ADFS and I am using Passport-SAML (https://github.com/bergie/passport-saml) to configure the SSO process.
After getting to a special URL I give my client (example: www.myClient.myCompany.com ), the user (unauthenticated) is as expected redirected to the client login page.
After he enters his credential, he remains stuck in login page BUT the SSO work because the user is authenticated meaning that if he opens a new tab and go to www.myClient.myCompany.com, he will be redirected to my website.
Here the error in ADFS Server Log:
The Federation Service encountered an error while processing the SAML authentication request.
Additional Data
Exception details:
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.XmlSignature.SignatureVerificationFailedException: MSIS0038: SAML Message has wrong signature. Issuer: 'www.myCompany.co'.
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Protocols.Saml.Contract.SamlContractUtility.CreateSamlMessage(MSISSamlBindingMessage message)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Service.SamlProtocol.SamlProtocolService.Issue(IssueRequest issueRequest)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Service.SamlProtocol.SamlProtocolService.ProcessRequest(Message requestMessage)
Thank for your time!
I'm not familiar with Microsoft ADFS nor Passport-SAML, but I when we had signature errors was because the SHA1 fingerpring of the IDp certificate didn't match the one at our end.
We fixed them by making sure the certificate is correctly formatted and then calculating the fingerpring.
Format:
https://developers.onelogin.com/saml/online-tools/x509-certs/format-x509-certificate
Fingerprint:
https://developers.onelogin.com/saml/online-tools/x509-certs/calculate-fingerprint
Hopefully this is your case
Not a Passport-SAML guru but the normal causes of this error with ADFS are:
A signing mismatch - ADFS expects the AuthRequest to be signed and it isn't or vice versa.
The signing certificate installed in this RP has expired or is the wrong one in the sense that it is not the certificate the client is using.
At the RP level, look at:
Get-ADFSRelyingPartyTrust
[-SignedSamlRequestsRequired ]
[-SamlResponseSignature ]
or globally:
Get-ADFSProperties
SignedSamlRequestsRequired
SignSamlAuthnRequests
and check:
Get-AdfsCertificate -CertificateType "Token-Signing"
(following up from ADFS and PingFederate SSO : SAML Message has wrong signature)
We're using a different library and it was a different issue for us (our customer actually had the wrong signature), but during the process of trying to debug, I happened upon this thread that sounds very similar to what you're describing.
The fix is to install this hotfix. Can you check if your customer is on Windows Server 2008 and 2012, has 2843638 or 2843639 installed, and if so, install the hotfix if they haven't already? Just a shot in the dark...
I am using ADFS 3.0 for SSO on SharePoint 2013, I have followed the instructions at http://info.summit7systems.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-claims-based-authentication-ad-fs-3-0-and-sharepoint-2013-part-ii-installing-and-configuring-ad-fs-3-0
but every time I login using the ADFS login page I receive the below error
No strong authentication method found for the request from urn:sharepoint:ontrack.
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.Authentication.AuthenticationPolicyEvaluator.
this is the configuration of authnetication policies
Enabling ADFS tracing will likely give you further insight. I received this error and it related to not having a custom multifactor authentication provider installed on a particular ADFS node.
Is your SharePoint RPT setup for multifactor authentication? If so, you may ensure that the appropriate MFA provider displays and is enabled on the Multi-factor tab.
I have an ADFS single sign on application. Can we also have form authentication using login credential from a database on the same application? In other words, I need single-sign-on for people who have windows account and form authentication for people who do not have windows account. I did some research on this topic but I have no lead. Is there any suggestion?
Out of the box ADFS can only authenticate against Active Directory (The latest version of ADFS (vNext) do supports LDAP v3-compliant directories).
You need to build your own Custom Authentication Provider for ADFS if you would like to plugin your custom code.
Some pointers for further reading:
Understanding WIF 4.5
Create a Custom Authentication Provider for Active Directory Federation Services
I was recently reading this blog post about chaining multiple ADFS STS together: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dmitrii/archive/2012/08/18/chaining-multiple-sts.aspx
In case the link goes dead, the author describes chaining together multiple ADFS instances to give a set-up like:
Claims enabled app
Relying partner STS - fs1.external.com
Replying partner STS - fs2.contoso.com
IdP STS - fs1.contoso.com
When a user logged into the claims enabled app, they would hit each STS and eventually the IdP where they would get authenticated. At that point the authentication is passed back through the different STS to the user.
In this scenario, is the domain of each STS authenticated? I.e. is a cookie issued for fs1.external.com, fs2.external.com, fs1.contoso.com or just the IdP domain (fs1.contoso.com)?
Just the IDP domain.
Note however, that on the downstream path:
each ADFS can augment the token with claims
the token is re-minted
and signed with the signing key for that instance