Squarespace Single Sign-On (SSO)
Squarespace SSO solution by miniOrange provides you a ready to use Single Sign-On service which allows users to securely login into Squarespace and other integrated applications using a single set of login Credentials. You can easily connect with any of your IDP (Okta, Ping, etc) , Active Directory and LDAP without migrating your users. Squarespace secure SSO integration helps your organization's time and efforts with improved security to your data present in the cloud or on-premise. You don't need any enterprise plan or premium feature to enable SSO for Squarespace. Get One-Click secure SSO access with miniOrange’s IAM services.
Challenge faced by Squarespace Users
Squarespace users want continuous and seamless access to their website portal through their existing accounts. They don't wish for their users to have a separate set of credentials for logging in to Squarespace websites. Though Squarespace provides a way for its users to allow their users to log in to the platform seamlessly. But, an interface needs to be created which would allow this.
miniOrange SSO solution for Squarespace
miniOrange provides an integrated SSO solution where a logged in user's existing session can be used to log the users into
Squarespace websites by creating a valid JSON Web Token (JWT). With this Squarespace users are relieved from maintaining separate user credentials users for its users.
As a result, a miniOrange Single Sign-On (SSO) solution is implemented. Squarespace users can now login into Squarespace platform using their existing credentials of any IDP without migrating users.
Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Shibboleth, Ping, Okta, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more.
Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Squarespace Single Sign-On (SSO)
1. Integrate Squarespace with miniOrange
- Login to miniOrange Admin Console.
- Go to Apps >> Manage Apps. Click on Add Application button.
- Click on Create App button in JWT App tab.
- Now you will be directed to the “Add App” Panel.
- Enter the required fields and Click on Save.
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Custom Application Name
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Choose appropriate name according to your choice. |
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API Name
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Enter your API Name. |
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Description
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Add appropriate description according to your choice. |
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Redirect-URL
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JWT Endpoint fetched from JWT. |
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Group Name
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Default |
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Policy Name
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Add policy name according to your Preference. |
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Login Method
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Password. |
- Search for your app and click on the Select in action menu against your app and click on Edit.
- Here you will get other required fields like Client ID, Client Secret, Single Sign-On URL.
- Choose RSA-SHA256 as your Signature Algorithm.
- Click on Save.
- Now, You can access Squarespace Account Using IDP credentials through the Single-sign-on URL.
2. Adding script on Squarespace's End
- To enable SSO on Squarespace's end, all you need to do is add a customized script to retrieve the required attributes from the JWT token.
- Please click here to contact us for the script which is to be added.
3. Configure Your User Directory (Optional)
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD, 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.
- On miniOrange dashboard left side menu, click on User Stores >> Add User Store.
- Select User Store type as AD/LDAP.
- 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.
- 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.
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| 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.
User Import and Provisioning from AD
- Go to Settings in the Customer Admin Account.
- Enable the "Enable User Auto Registration" option and click Save.
- (Optional) To send a welcome email to all the end users that will be imported, enable the "Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration" option and click Save.
- From the Left-Side menu of the dashboard select Provisioning.
- In Setup Provisioning tab select Active Directory in the Select Application Drop Down.
- Toggle the Import Users tab, click on Save button.
- On the same section, switch to Import Users section.
- Select Active Directory from the dropdown and click on the Import Users tab, to import all the users from Active Directory to miniOrange.
- You can view all the Users you have imports by selecting Users >> User List from Left Panel.
- All the imported users will be auto registered.
- These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.
miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.
4. Squarespace SSO Login
- Lets say you have configured miniOrange as userstore.
- So after accessing the Single Sign-On URL , you will be asked for miniOrange crediantials.
- And on entering the valid credentials of miniOrange, you will be sucessfully redirected to Squarespace.
