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How can we Authenticate using Magento as an Identity Provider?

Magento Authentication is a process where users can login to their external applications and Websites using their Magento site credentials. miniOrange lets Magento act as an IDP (Identity Provider) which allows users to achieve Single Sign-On (SSO) into multiple applications and websites. Users will authenticate themselves via their Magento credentials only once and they can access all the external applications.

The Magento User database is linked to miniOrange as a user store to provide SSO into external applications with highest levels of security. This is made possible by miniOrange's Magento as API Authentication Source plugin which provides login capabilities using API endpoints.

Features of Magento as API Authentication source plugin:

• Secure SSO for multiple applications and websites using single Magento site Credentials.
• You don’t need to migrate your users from Magento to any third party system.
• On-the-fly user creation : Auto create users at the time of SSO and auto sync up of user details.
• Multiple Authentication protocol support : SAML, OAuth, OpenID, JWT etc.

Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for login with Magento as IdP

1. Setup Magento API Source Plugin

• Magento 1.5-1.9
• Magento 2.0+

You can configure your Magento ( version 1.5-1.9 ) site as an Identity Provider and Single Sign-On (SSO) into any other application.

Here are the steps on how to configure Magento as IdP:

• Login to your Magento backend and install our API Authentication module.
• If you do not have access to our API module then contact info@xecurify.com for more details.
• Once you have the Authentication module installed then go to API Authentication setting from the navigation bar.



• Incase you don’t see that option in the navbar then just clear your Magento Cache by following these steps:
  • Go to System >> Cache Mangement.
  • Click on the Flush Magento Cache button.
  
  
  
• You should see an Account setup page. Simply log in using your miniOrange credentials.

2. Setup Magento as authentication source in miniOrange

• Click Here to go to your miniOrange dashboard.
• Log in using your miniOrange credentials.
• Go to External Directory from the left hand side menu and click on the Add Directory Button.



• Go to API section and select Magento 1.0+ from the dropdown.



• Enter your Magento Site Base URL and click on Save button.
  
  



• Check your configuration using the Test Validation API and Test Authorization API links.

• Your Magento site is now connected as an Identity Source with miniOrange. Your users can now authenticate themselves using their Magento credentials to SSO into other applications.

You can configure your Magento ( version 2.0 and up ) site as an Identity Provider and Single Sign-On into any other application.

Here we are the steps on how to configure Magento as IdP:

• Log into your Magento backend.
• Go to Settings >> Integrations and click on the Add New Integration button.
• Fill out all the details as follows:

Name	miniOrange
Email	<Your miniOrange Email>
Callback URL	https://login.xecurify.com
Identity Link URL	https://www.miniorange.com (Optional)
Your Password	<Your Admin Password>



• Click on the API tab and select the Resources that you want to provide access to the users and click on the Save button.
• Click on the Activate button and click on Allow to activate your integration.
• Copy the Access Token. You will need this token to configure miniOrange.
• You can also click on the edit icon to check your integration.
• Scroll to the Integration Details section and copy your Access Token.

2. Setup Magento as authentication source in miniOrange

• Click Here to go to your miniOrange dashboard.
• Log in using your miniOrange credentials.
• Go to External Directory from the left hand side menu and click on the Add Directory Button.



• Go to API section and select Magento 2.0+ from the dropdown.



• Enter your Magento Site Base URL, Access Token and click on Save button.



• Check your configuration using the Test Validation API and Test Authorization API links.



• Your Magento site is now connected as an Identity Source with miniOrange. Your users can now authenticate themselves using their Magento credentials to SSO into other applications.

3. 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.

4. Login using IDP selection page (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 also have the option to modify the appearance and design 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.

External References

• What is Identity Brokering?
• Learn more about SSO