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Can Okta support multiple domains?
You can register multiple domains to a single Okta Active Directory (AD) Agent. To add additional domains to the Okta AD Agent, you need to ensure the domains have an external trust and the domain service account has sufficient privileges in all domains.
What is realm authentication?
An authentication realm is a grouping of authentication resources, including: An authentication server, which verifies a user’s identity. The system forwards credentials submitted on a sign-in page to an authentication server.
Can you have two active directories?
If you’re asking if you can have two domain controllers (two machines) hosting an Active Directory directory service, yes. You can have as many as you like, well almost. If you’re asking if you can have two Active Directory directory services domain names under one DNS domain namespace, no.
What is life cycle management in Okta?
Okta Lifecycle Management is a cloud-based identity lifecycle automation product that increases IT processes efficiency and streamlines access decisions. Automate Account Creation and Changes. Save an average of 30 minutes of IT admin time, on average, per provisioning request.
What is realm URL?
A realm is a security policy domain defined for a web or application server. A realm contains a collection of users, who may or may not be assigned to a group. An application will often prompt for a user name and password before allowing access to a protected resource.
How can I authenticate a website on another domain?
Websites on other domains can submit a simple POST request to the authentication domain, which will of course include the user’s cookie for that domain. The returned response would basically tell the original domain, whether the user is authenticated, and if needed what his identity is.
How to set up a single sign on for multiple domains?
Have a third, “authentication” domain that issues an “identity cookie” (after authenticating the user). Websites on other domains can submit a simple POST request to the authentication domain, which will of course include the user’s cookie for that domain.
Which is the best authentication protocol for multiple domains?
PS: OpenId can be used to have a unique identity used by many sites but you still have to “manually” login on each domain. Two good protocols for this are OAuth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth) and SAML.
Which is the domain of the user account?
To make such scenarios work, the domain of the server (called the resource domain) and the domain of the user account (called the account domain) engage in a trust relationship, in which authentication decisions made in the account domain are trusted in the resource domain.