I am trying to integrate Salesforce with AAD, so I see two available options, either Saml or OpenId Connect.. I do not know which one is better, but I prefer OpenId Connect since it seems to be more modern. So I tried to register Salesforce App in AAD and Saml was the default options, so why is Saml the default option ?! is it better or what? Please note that I am building an API and I need to allow authentication and authorization with Single Sign On.
The Azure AD app gallery contains many popular applications that are already pre-configured to work with Azure AD as an identity provider. These applications will be available in the Enterprise applications and have SAML to perform SSO. Any application which is added directly from the Gallery the default method is SAML based SSO , password based SSO etc.. which depends upon the applications.
Kindly check the difference between the App Registration and Gallery application in Azure portal from the link
In order to get more detailed explanation about SSO types and protocols kindly check the document to get more detailed explanation.
If you have any further queries kindly let me know.
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I am trying to authenticate using msal js for my react application (Azure AD B2C). Microsoft authentication works perfectly. But I need to add more external identity providers such as Google to my authentication.
I have followed the steps given in the official documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/active-directory-b2c/identity-provider-google?WT.mc_id=Portal-Microsoft_AAD_B2CAdmin&pivots=b2c-user-flow
When I Run user flow I am able to sign in google but the user is not authenticated.
screen when user sign into google
This is the screen that is given.
And the other thing is only if use Run user flow in Azure AD B2C I am able to do this.
If I normally use the sign in button it only shows microsoft authentication.
What am I missing ?
Can someone please help on this if possible ?
Issues may arise as a result of previous Microsoft configuration under App registrations. Verify below three configurations once whether those are mapped to google identify provider or not
Client ID and Client secret and Authorized redirect URIs
here I found one blog relates to Google Identity Provider with Azure AD B2C configuration and implementation.
In our organisation we implemented support for OIDC and OAuth2 support recently and we used the node-oidc-provider library to support the same. This way our product acts as an IDP that support Open IDC. We were also able to integrate our product as an IDP into our organisations instance of okta for certain scenarios.
In the same way we are planning to support SAML2 implementation in our security product that currently only supports OIDC. Is this possible and if so is it worth implementing SAML support? One of the reason to support SAML is so that we can talk to snowflake where Azure AD will use our SAML IDP to authenticate users and then provide access to snowflake.
Or the other way is to use Okta as a SAML provider and talk to snowflake. The flow would be users connect to okta and then okta will redirect certain users with a certain domain to our IDP (Supporting Open IDC) and then once that succeeds okta will use SAML to talk to Azure AD which in turn will provide access to snowflake.
Please suggest a good way. If you say we can integrate SAML support also into our existing Open IDC supported IDP what is the best library to use for nodejs.
Thanks
I have been looking into using an identity provider (IDP) to provide user authentication for a Windows Forms client. The user credentials will be hosted by Auth0. After creating a trial account with Auth0 I have downloaded a sample C# Windows Forms client application that can be used to authenticate to the Auth0 IDP using OpenID Connect ("OIDC"). The WinForms sample application pops up a web browser component, displays the Auth0 login screen, I login to the Auth0 IDP (having setup some test credentials in Auth0) and the WinForms application then is sent an authentication token. All well and good, and if I try to login a second time I no longer need to enter my credentials.
However... the company that I will be fetching authentication data from in production would like to use SAML. Is there any way to do this? Based on what I have read, SAML needs a "Service Provider" that will receive credentials from the IDP. The Service Provider is (typically?) a web site. That does not seem to match very well with what I am trying to do (authenticate a windows client). Is there any way of using SAML to do essentially what I have done using OIDC (fetch authentication information for a user from an IDP)? Would I need to develop a separate Service Provider component for this?
Sounds like what you've done so far is fine architecturally:
A modern desktop app following OIDC standards
This puts you in a good position architecturally, where:
Your app gets tokens from Auth0 using OIDC
Auth0 can reach out and do federated authentication with other standards based identity providers, which could be SAML, OIDC, WS-Federation or anything else
This can be done without changing any code in your app - and your app does not need to understand SAML
Feels like you need to set up a federated connection from Auth0 to the SAML Service Provider, and most commonly this involves these steps:
You give the partner your Entity Id and Response URL, to post tokens to
They give you am Entity Id, Public Key Certificate and request URL
You configure rules around account linking, so that users can be matched between their system and yours
There are prerequisites though, and the external identity provider needs to be SAML 2.0 compliant. My Federated Logins Article may help you to understand the general concepts, though I do not drill into SAML details here.
I am using a SaaS application and I want to use our own LDAP to Login to that 3rd party application. I want to provide a link to that application in my Portal. Both the applications are hosted in Cloud and are Spring based.
Please let me know where to Start and how to go about implementing SP initiated SAML.
Thanks!
First of all you need a SAML IDP that authenticates against LDAP e.g. shibboleth.
Then you need a client side SAML stack.
Refer: SAML : SAML connectivity / toolkit.
You could also look at IDaaS e.g. Auth0 or Okta.
Based on the code sample mentioned at URL: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-dotnet-webapp-wsfederation , I implemented an application that uses WS-Federation (ASP.Net WS-Federation OWIN middleware) to authenticate users from an Azure AD tenant. Now I am looking for an approach to query the Graph API later in my application to fetch additional claims information required from application point of view.
Here in this scenario, I would like to know whether it is possible to query the Graph API or not. Do I need to update the existing WS-Federation protocol to OpenId Connect.
Can anyone help me to provide their guidance here.
The ideal would be to move to OpenId Connect, which would allow you to take care of both sign in and API in a single setup and flow.
If you want to stick with your current ws-fed setup, you can layer oauth2 on top of your implementation and retrieve the access token you need any time after the sign in. We have a sample showing exactly that, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/samples/active-directory-dotnet-webapp-webapi-oauth2-useridentity/