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Configure SSO for Apps with Surfconext as IDP

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Surfconext Single Sign-On login provides secure auto-login to your Surfconext app. Users can sign-in using any IDP of their choice which verifies the identity credentials of the users & grants access.

miniOrange SSO solution also acts as an identity broker for cross protocol authentication, which means Service Provider following a particular SSO protocol can connect to an Identity Provider following some different SSO protocol like SAML,OAuth etc. Once configured successfully you will be ready to securely access your website/application using SURFconext IDP.

Steps to setup SURFconext as SAML IDP

Step 1: Configure SURFconext as IDP in miniOrange

• Login to your miniOrange Admin Console.
• From the left navigation bar select Identity Providers. Select SAML.





• Enter appropriate IdP Name. Also add following details

IdP Entity ID	Identity Provider Issuer from Bitium
SAML SSO Login URL	Identity Provider Single Sign-On URL from Bitium
X.509 Certificate	X.509 Certificate from Bitium
Single Logout URL [Optional]	Single Logout URL from Bitium

• 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

• Click on Save.

Step 2: Configure miniOrange as SP in SURFconext

• Login into your SURFconext SP dashboard.
• You will be presented with the WAYF (Were Are You From) screen. Select the Identity Provider that refers to the service you want to add ex: eduID.



• In the SP Dashboard window, click on add entity for test environment for Test Environment / add entity for production environment for Production Environment.



• In CREATE REGISTRATION FORM select the following options and click on Create

Protocol	SAML 2.0
From existing entity	No, create blank registration form


• For the above SAML configuration you need to get the Entity ID and ACS URL from miniOrange
• Go to miniOrange Dashboard in the left navigation menu. Click on Add External IdP.



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

• For SP -INITIATED SSO section Select Show Metadata Details.



• Enter the values in basic SAML configuration as shown in below screen

Single sign on URL	ACS URL
Audience URI (SP Entity ID)	Entity ID or Issuer



• In the Service Provider registration form import the Metadata URL or paste Metadata from the plugin's Service Provider Metadata tab.



• Select the Name-ID format as required.
• Enter the Logo url, Name and Description.



• Enter the required data in Administrative contact and Technical contact section.



• Once you have entered all the required data click on Publish.



• After the Test Environment / Production Environment is published, you will be presented with list of Identity Providers.
• Select SURFconext test IdP / SURFconext Mujina IDP link to get the IdP metadata.



• Copy the Test Environment / Production Environment link to fetch the IdP metadata for configuring the Service Provider.




You have successfully configured SURFconext as SAML IdP (Identity Provider) for achieving Single Sign-On.

Step 3: Test Connection

• Go to Identity Providers tab.
• Click on Select>>Test Connection option against the Identity Provider you configured.



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

4. Configure your app 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.