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About SAML Single Sign-On in SMACS

Single Sign-On can be setup in SMACS against any Identity Provider (IdP) which supports SAML 2.0.

This guide covers the steps required to setup SAML SSO against Okta, Azure AD & ADFS IdP’s.

For an exhaustive list of supported IDP’s, visit SAML-based products and services.

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Note

Wildcard Certificates are not supported for SSO.

  1. Generate a CSR

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  2. Import the Signed Certificate

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  3. Restart Apache via the Stack8 Console (SSH)

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SP-Metadata
SP-Metadata
Provide SMACS Service Provider (SP) Metadata to your Identity Provider (IdP)

Once the certificate installed and working correctly, export the SP Metadata to provide to your IdP.

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https://<SMACS-FQDN>:8443/saml/medatada

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Adding SMACS as a Service Provider (SP) in OKTA using metadata URL:

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Adding SMACS as a Service Provider (SP) in ADFS using metadata.xml file:

  1. Click on Add Relying Party Trust

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  2. Select default option “Claims Aware”

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  3. Select “Import data about the relying party from a file”

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  4. Upload the Service Provider (SP) metadata file from previous step.

  5. Provide a meaningful Display Name for the SMACS relying party and click “Next”

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  6. Select “Permit everyone” and click “Next””

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  7. Enable “Configure claims issuance policy for this application” checkbox and click “Close”

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Configure Name Identifier (NameID)

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Configuring Name Identifier in Azure AD

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Configuring Name Identifier in ADFS

  1. Edit Claim Issuance Policy

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  2. Click “Add Rule”

  3. Choose Claim rule template “Send LDAP Attributes as Claims” and click “Next”

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  4. Provide a Claim rule name, select the Attribute Store “Active Directory” from the dropdown, provide the SAM-Account-Name to Name ID mapping and click “Finish”.

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Download your Identity Provider (IdP) Metadata

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Go back into SMACS and complete the SAML SSO Configuration

  1. Import your IDP metadata

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  2. Enable SSO

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  3. Logout from SMACS

  4. Login to the stack8-console using s8admin account and restart the active side of the machine.

  5. Follow the instructions here on how to restart the active side of the smacs machine.

  6. Go to the SMACS URL & click the orange login button to authenticate using SAML SSO

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  7. Use the Recovery URL to bypass Single Sign-On and to login using LDAP.

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Tip

SSO Configuration Complete ✔

Once logged in you will have initiated a Single Sign-On session which will give you access to all other applications registered to your IdP server without having to re log-in.