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Enable SSO with Okta as SAML IDP | Okta SSO Login

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Configure Okta as an IDP for Single Sign-On (SSO) login into your application. miniOrange offers a pre-built solution for integrating Okta Single Sign On (SSO), making it easy to implement. Here Okta will act as an Identity Provider (IDP) and miniOrange will act as a broker, and other multiple applications will act as Service Provider (SP). Enabling SSO for your domain within help of miniOrange allows your Users to easily and securely log in to their accounts.

Whereas, you can setup Okta as SAML IdP to Single Sign-On into apps that support protocols like OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT, etc. Our Identity Broker service enables cross protocol authentication.

Prerequisites

• Log into miniOrange Admin Console.
• Click on Customization >> Login and Registration Branding in the left menu of the dashboard.
• In Basic Settings, set the Organization Name as the custom_domain name.
• Click Save. Once that is set, the branded login URL would be of the format https://<custom_domain>.xecurify.com/moas/login

Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Okta Single Sign-On (SSO)

Step 1: Configure miniOrange as SP in Okta

Mentioned below are steps to configure Okta as IDP via SAML and OAuth configuration. Follow the steps accordingly based on your requirement (SAML or OAuth).

• SAML
• OAuth

Follow the steps to configure Okta as SAML IdP configuration.

• Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
• From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers.
• Click on the Add Identity Provider button.



• Now click on the Click here link to get miniorange metadata, as shown in the image below.



• For SP - Initiated SSO section, select Show Metadata Details.



• Copy Entity ID or Issuer and ACS URL (For SP-Initiated SSO) values and keep them handy. This will require configuring the application on the Okta side.



• Now go to Okta site and login to your Okta admin dashboard.
• Then click on the Applications from the side-panel and then select Applications.
• Click on the Create App Integration button.



• Select SAML 2.0 as Sign-in method and click on the Next button.



• In the General Settings tab, enter the App name and click on Next button.



• In the Configure SAML tab of Okta, enter the following required details:

  Single sign-on URL	ACS (Assertion Consumer Service) URL from SP-INITIATED SSO section of the miniOrange
  Audience URI (SP Entity ID)	Entity ID or Issuer from SP-INITIATED SSO section of the miniOrange
  Default RelayState (Optional)	This is the URL where you want to redirect your users after SSO.
  Name ID format	Select EmailAddress as a Name ID Format from the drop-down list
  Application username	Okta username




• Configure Attribute Statements and Group Attribute Statements (Optional) then click on Next button.



• Click on Next then Finish.
• Navigate to Assignment tab from Okta.
• Click on Assign & select Assign to People. Select the user from the popup & click on Done. You can also assign groups if required.





• Navigate to the Sign On tab.



• Click on the More details option to see the metadata details.
• Copy the Metadata URL, which is required in Step 2 to configure Okta within miniOrange.

Follow the steps to configure Okta as IdP by OAuth configuration.

• Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
• From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers >> click Add Identity Provider.



• Select OAuth 2.0.
• Now copy the OAuth Callback URL which we will use to configure Okta as OAuth Server/Provider.



• Now go to Okta site and login to your Okta admin dashboard.
• Then click on the Applications from the side-panel and then select Applications.
• Click on the Create App Integration button.



• Select OIDC - OpenID Connect as Sign-in method and Web Application as Application type. Click Next.



• You will be redirected to the app details page. Enter App integration name and Sign-in redirect URIs, which we copied as OAuth Callback URL from miniOrange.



• Scroll down and you will see the Assignments section. Select an option for Controlled access as Allow everyone in your organization to access, untick the Enable immediate access with Federation Broker Mode and then click on Save button.



• Now you will get the Client ID and Client Secret. Keep these credentials handy for configuring miniOrange OAuth Client Single Sign-On (SSO).



• Copy domain name: From right top header, you will get your domain name. Keep the domain name handy.

Fetch Okta Groups:

• Click on the Sign On tab in your Okta application.



• Scroll to OpenID Connect ID Token section.
• Under the Group Claims Filter section, enter groups as the default name, and then select Matches regex from the drop down list and enter .* (without spaces) to return all the user's groups.



• Click on the Save button.

Profile Attributes for the ID Token:

• Go to Okta Admin dashboard >> Security >> API.
• Click on Add Authorization Server button.
• After creating a new Authorization Server, click on the Edit icon, as shown below.



• Go to Claims tab and select the ID token option.



• Click on Add claim button.
• Give a Name to your claim/ attribute, and select the ID Token from Include in token type dropdown. Now, enter the value user.$attribute in the Value field based on the attribute you want to receive. Keep other settings as default.



• Click Create button.

Follow the same steps for all the attributes you want to see.

2. Configure Okta as IDP in miniOrange

• SAML
• OAuth

• Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
• From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers.
• Click on Add Identity Provider button.



• Click on Import IDP metadata.



• Enter IDP Name. Select URL radio button and enter the copied URL from Okta.
• Click on Import.



• A few other optional features that can be added to the Identity Provider (IDP) are listed in the table below:

  Domain Mapping	Can be used to redirect specific domain user to specific IDP
  Show IdP to Users	Enable this if you want to show this IDP to all users during Login
  Send Configured Attributes	Enabling this would allow you to add attributes to be sent from IDP
  X.509 Certificate	X.509 Certificate from Okta




• Click on Save button.

• Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
• From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers >> Add Identity Provider. Select OAuth 2.0.





• Enter the following values.

  IdP Name	Custom Provider (if your app name is not listed here)
  IdP Display Name	Choose appropriate Name (Like Okta)
  OAuth Authorize Endpoint	https://{yourOktaDomain}.com/oauth2/default/v1/authorize
  OAuth Access Token Endpoint	https://{yourOktaDomain}.com/oauth2/default/v1/token
  OAuth Get User Info Endpoint (optional)	https://{yourOktaDomain}/oauth2/default/v1/userinfo
  Client ID	Copied from above stpes
  Client secret	Copied from above stpes
  Scope	openid profile email

3. Test Connection

• Login to your Branding URL.
• Go to Identity Providers tab.
• Click on Select >> Test Connection option against the Identity Provider (IDP) you configured.



• On entering valid Okta credentials (credentials of user assigned to app created in Okta), you will see a pop-up window which is shown in the below screen.



• Hence your configuration of Okta as IDP in miniOrange is successfully completed.

4. Configure Your application in miniOrange

• Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
• Go to Apps >> Add Application.

• SAML Application
• OAuth Application
• JWT Application

• Click on Create App under SAML.



• Search for your Application. In case you do not find your app, search for Custom SAML App.





• 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	Password

• Click on Save to configure your application.
• Now to get the IDP metadata of the app configured, Go to apps >> your_app >> select >> metadata tab.



• 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.



• You need to Upload this metadata in your application.

• Click on Create App under OAuth/OIDC. 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.





• Enter following Values:

Client Name	Add appropriate Name
Redirect URL	Get the Redirect-URL from your OAuth Client
Description	Add if required
Group Name	Default
Policy Name	As per your Choice
Login Method	Password

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






Note: Choose 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}

• Click on Create App under JWT.



• Select 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.




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.



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



• 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.

5. Setup Multiple IDPs (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 SAML, OAuth protocol supported IDP's 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 should copy the Customer Key from admin console-> Settings -> and replace it with <customer_id> here. Once configured in SP, when you initiate the login from Service Provider, a user will be redirected to IDP Selection Page listing all IDPs configured for that account.

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.




• 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-




• You can customize the title of this page.
• Change the logo and favicon for this page.
• Change the background and button color for this page from admin UI.

Troubleshooting

You receive these error message when you try to SSO in to an application that has been set up to use Okta as External IdP using SAML-based Single Sign-On (SSO).

External References

• Know more about SAML Identity Provider?
• Okta vs miniOrange | How miniOrange is different than Okta?
• What is Identity Brokering Services? Know more about it
• What is Identity and Access Management (IAM) ?