Finacle Single Sign-On (SSO) Solution
Simplify and secure user authentication for your Finacle application with the miniOrange Finacle Single Sign-On (SSO) solution. Enable users to access Finacle using a single set of credentials through their existing Identity Provider (IdP), eliminating multiple passwords, reducing login friction, and improving the overall user experience.
The miniOrange Finacle SSO solution centralizes authentication while enhancing security and simplifying access management across enterprise applications. It supports integration with Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, LDAP, social identity providers, and other external user directories, along with flexible user onboarding options. Whether you're securing employee or customer access, miniOrange provides a seamless and scalable authentication experience. Follow the setup guide below to configure Single Sign-On (SSO) for Finacle.
Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, AWS etc), Identity Providers (like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, AWS), and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
Follow the step-by-step guide to setup Finacle Single Sign-On (SSO)
1. Configure Finacle SSO in miniOrange
- Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps and click on Add Application button.

- In Choose Application Type, select SAML/WS-FED from the All Apps dropdown.

- Search for Finacle SSO in the list, if you don't find Finacle SSO in the list then, search for custom and you can set up your application in Custom SAML App.

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In the Basic tab, enter the following details:
| Display Name |
Finacle |
| SP Entity ID or Issuer |
Enter the SP Entity ID or Issuer provided by Finacle |
| ACS URL |
Enter the ACS URL provided by Finacle |
| Audience URI |
Enter the Audience URI provided by Finacle |
| Single Logout URL |
(Optional) |

- Click Next. In the Attributes tab, configure the following attributes as shown below.

- Click on Save.
- Now go to the Metadata tab.
- On the Metadata tab, choose one of the following options:
- If you want to use miniOrange as User-Store (i.e., your employee identities will be stored in miniOrange), download the metadata file under miniOrange as IdP.
- If you want to authenticate via an external Identity Provider (IdP) like Active Directory, Okta, OneLogin, Google, or Apple ID, download the metadata file under External source as IdP.


- Under miniOrange as IdP section, keep SAML Login URL, SAML Logout URL and click on the Download Certificate button to download certificate which you will require in Step 2.

2. Configure SSO in Finacle
- Please reach out to the support team of Finacle and kindly ask them to activate SAML 2.0 for your account. Upon your request, the Finacle support team will provide you with the metadata URL and metadata values specific to Finacle.
3. Test SSO Configuration
Test SSO login to your Finacle SSO account with miniOrange IdP:
4. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
- Click on Identity Providers >> Add Identity Provider in the left menu of the dashboard

- In Choose Identity Provider, select AD/LDAP Directories from the dropdown.

- Then search for AD/LDAP and click it.

- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If the active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
- STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway on your premise.

- Enter AD/LDAP Display Name and Identifier name.
- Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
- Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against the LDAP Server URL field.
- Click on the Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.

- In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for the Distinguished Name attribute. The bind account should have minimum required read privileges in Active Directory to allow directory lookups. If the use case involves provisioning (such as creating, updating, or deleting users or groups), the account must also be granted appropriate write permissions.

- Enter the valid Bind account Password.
- Click on the Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.

- Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.

- Select a suitable Search filter from the drop-down menu. If you use User in Single Group Filter or User in Multiple Group Filter, replace the <group-dn> in the search filter with the distinguished name of the group in which your users are present. To use custom Search Filter select "Write your Custom Filter" option and customize it accordingly.

- Click on the Next button, or go to the Login Options tab.
- You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Next button to add user store.

Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.
| Attribute |
Description |
| Activate LDAP |
All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it |
| Fallback Authentication |
If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange |
| Enable administrator login |
On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server |
| Show IdP to users |
If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users |
| Sync users in miniOrange |
Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP |
- Click on the Next button, or go to the Attributes tab.
Attributes Mapping from AD
User Import and Provisioning from AD
- If you want to set up provisioning, click here for detailed information. We will skip this step for now.

Import Password Policy from AD
- If you want to import your Active Directory password policy into miniOrange, click here for detailed information. We will skip this step for now.

Test Connections
- You will see a list of directories under Identity Providers. From the dropdown, select AD/LDAP Directories, search for your configured directory, click the three dots next to it, and select Test Connection.

- A pop-up appears prompting you to enter a username and password to verify your LDAP configuration.

- On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.

Test Attribute Mapping
- You will see a list of directories under Identity Providers. From the dropdown, select AD/LDAP Directories, search for your configured directory, click the three dots next to it, and select Test Attribute Mapping.

- A pop‑up appears to enter a username and click Test.

- The Test Attribute Mapping Result will be displayed.

Set up AD as External Directory configuration is complete.
Note: Refer our guide to setup LDAP on windows server.
miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.
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