Oracle E-Business Single Sign On (SSO)

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Oracle E-Business Suite is a major product line of Oracle Corporation. Oracle EBS is a combined set of business applications for automating customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes within organizations.

"miniOrange SSO connector enables the Single Sign-On (SSO) between Oracle EBS and any IDPs without the need to purchase and install Oracle Access Manager (OAM) and Oracle Internet Directory (OID) license."

SSO connector enables the Single Sign-On integration between any Oracle application and IDPs (Identity Providers) like miniOrange, ADFS, Active Directory, Azure AD, Google, Okta, Onelogin, Ping Idenity, Centrify and many more. It also supports web applications which do not provide support for federated Single Sign-On.

Supported Protocols for Oracle EBS Single Sign-On:

Oracle EBS does not natively support any Single Sign-On integration with a standard SSO protocol such as SAML or OAuth 2.0. With the miniOrange SSO connector, you can integrate your EBS instance with Single Sign-On using any of the following protocols:

1. SAML 2.0

2. OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

3. WS-FED

4. RADIUS

5. Kerberos / Integrated Windows Authentication

miniOrange SSO connector gives you the flexibility of extending your existing SAML SSO integration for other applications, to Oracle EBS as well. This is possible due to its capability to act as a broker between multiple IdP's & your configured applications. This means that you can perform seamless integration of SSO for Oracle EBS with your existing authentication platform.

Authentication Flow for miniOrange Oracle EBS SSO Solution:

1. The User sends the request to access the Oracle E-Business Suite.

2. Oracle EBS redirects the request to the miniOrange SSO Conenector for authentication.

3. The Connector redirects the user to the miniOrange IDP.

4. The miniOrange IDP prompts the user to enter their AD credentials.

5. The miniOrange IDP send the user's credentials to the AD for authentication.

6. The Active Directory authenticates and send respond with the confirmation.

7. The IDP sends the username/email to the connector.

8. The connector checks the value of the username/email recieved from IDP against the FND_USER table in the EBS Database.

9. After successful authentication, user is redirected to the Oracle E-Business Suite portal as logged-in user.

Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Oracle E-Business Single Sign-On (SSO)

1. Configure Oracle EBS with miniOrange SSO Connector

• Set aside a sub-domain for the miniOrange EBS SSO connector on the same domain as the EBS installation. For example, if the EBS installation has the URL apps.example.com:, the miniOrange EBS SSO connector could be installed on the sub-domain ebsauth.example.com.
• In your E-Business Suite installation, login as SYSADMIN and do the following:
  
• Create a new user, and assign them the role with code: UMX|APPS_SCHEMA_CONNECT. Make a note of the credentials for this user.
• Navigate to Functional Administrator → Core Services → Profiles, and make the following changes:
• Search for the Profile with code APPS_SSO; change its site value from SSWA to SSWA w/SSO.
• Search for the Profile with the code APPS_AUTH_AGENT; change its site value to the full URL (FQDN) of the miniOrange EBS SSO connector (e.g. http://ebsauth.example.com/ebsauth).
• Search for the Profile with the name Oracle Applications Session Cookie Domain; change its value from Host to Domain.
• Bounce the Application Tier of the E-Business Suite to reflect the changes.
• Generate a DBC file with the miniOrange EBS SSO connector domain (e.g. ebsauth.example.com) using the AdminDesktop utility in EBS; make a note of the APPL_SERVER_ID value present in this newly generated file.
• Add your external data source (e.g. Active Directory) in the User Store section in your miniOrange Cloud/On-Premise installation; set this user store as the default user store (Prefer Step 2).
• Add an OpenID application in your miniOrange Cloud/On-Premise installation; the redirect URI should be as follows: http(s)://./ebsauth/redirect. For example, http://ebsauth.example.com/ebsauth/redirect.
• Make a note of the authorize endpoint (for external broker), token endpoint, and user info endpoint URLs.
• Deploy the miniOrange EBS SSO connector on your Tomcat server.
• Update the connector.properties file in your miniOrange EBS SSO connector to reflect the credentials for the user created in step 2, the path of the DBC file & the APPL_SERVER_ID from step 3, and the endpoint URLs from step 5.

2. Oracle EBS Suite Login Flow

Scenario 1: User has not logged in, no session exists

• When a user accesses any of their bookmarked Oracle E-Business Suite URLs without previously having logged in, a user from the original login (Oracle EBS login page) page will be redirected to the miniOrange login page.





• Here, the user will have to enter their Active Directory credentials - userPrincipalName and password.
• The miniOrange server will then authenticate the user against the Active Directory, and perform authorization for accessing the user’s username and email address.
• This username and email address will then be matched against the table of users in the Oracle E-Business Suite database (FND_USER), and the user will be logged in.

Scenario 2: User has logged in, session is active

• When a user session already exists, the user can directly navigate to any of their bookmarked Oracle E-Business Suite URLs.
• No authentication is required in this case; the user’s session information is retrieved from the ICX session cookie that’s present in the browser.

3. Configure Your User Directory

• Setup AD as User Directory
• Setup miniOrange as Identity Provider

• Log in to miniOrange Admin Console.
• From the left side menu, click on User Stores >> Add User Store.



• Select User Store type as AD/LDAP.



1. STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
2. 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 in your premise.




• Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
• Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
• Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against LDAP Server URL field.
• Click on 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 Distinguished Name attribute.



• Enter the valid Bind account Password.
• Click on 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. To use custom Search Filter select "Custom Search Filter" option and customize it accordingly.



• You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Save 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
Sync users in miniOrange	Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP
Backup Authentication	If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange
Allow users to change password	This allows your users to change their password. It updates the new credentials in your LDAP server
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
Send Configured Attributes	If you enable this option, then only the attributes configured below will be sent in attributes at the time of login



• Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Configuration to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.



• On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.
• Click on Test Attribute Mapping.



• Enter a valid Username. Then, click on Test. Mapped Attributes corresponding to the user are fetched.



• After successful Attribute Mapping Configuration, go back to the ldap configuration and enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP.

Refer our guide to setup LDAPS on windows server.

• Log in to miniOrange Admin Console.
• Go to Userstore >> Add Userstore.



• Select Userstore type as miniOrange and click on Add miniOrange Identity Source.



• Once done with adding Identity Source, make it default by clicking on Select against the recently added miniOrange Identity Source.
  
  
  
• There are 3 ways to add users in miniOrange:

1. Create User in miniOrange

2. Bulk Upload Users

3. Self User Registration

1. Create User in miniOrange

• Click on Users >> Add User.



• Here, fill the user details without the password and then click on the Create User button.



• After successful user creation a notification message "An end user is added successfully" will be displayed at the top of the dashboard.



• Click on On Boarding Status tab. Check the email, with the registered e-mail id and select action Send Activation Mail with Password Reset Link from Select Action dropdown list and then click on Apply button.



• Now, Open your email id. Open the mail you get from miniOrange and then click on the link to set your account password.
• On the next screen, enter the password and confirm password and then click on the Single Sign-On (SSO) reset password button.



• Now, you can log in into miniOrange account by entering your credentials.

2. Bulk Upload Users in miniOrange via Uploading CSV File.

• Navigate to Users >> User List. Click on Add User button.



• In Bulk User Registration Download sample csv format from our console and edit this csv file according to the instructions.



• To bulk upload users, choose the file make sure it is in comma separated .csv file format then click on Upload.



• After uploading the csv file successfully, you will see a success message with a link.
• Click on that link you will see list of users to send activation mail. Select users to send activation mail and click on Send Activation Mail. An activation mail will be sent to the selected users.

3. Self User Registration

• miniOrange self user registration allows end users to register themselves using customized registration form. miniOrange admin users can customize the registration form by adding more custom fields according to their choice. Follow the miniOrange guide to customize user self registration page.

4. Oracle EBS (E-Business Suite) Provisioning with Active Directory

• Auto-Create user at the time of login authentication.
• Import Users from Active Directory and Sync them in Oracle EBS from miniOrange admin portal.
• Setup a scheduled sync to create/update/deactivate AD users in Oracle EBS on a daily basis.

External References

• https://www.miniorange.com/oracle-single-sign-on-(sso)
• https://www.oracle.com/in/applications/ebusiness/
• https://docs.oracle.com/cd/V77972_02/current/acrobat/122ebssu.pdf