How to create Federated authentication for Sitecore 9?

How to create Federated authentication for Sitecore 9?

Step 1: Login to azure portal and click “New” and search for “Azure Active Directory” and click “Create” as shown below. Step 2: Provide the basic information like “Organization name”, domain name, country and click Create button as shown in below screen shot.

How to set up SAML / WS-fed identity provider Federation?

SAML/WS-Fed identity provider federation: You can also set up federation with any external IdP that supports the SAML or WS-Fed protocols. SAML/WS-Fed IdP federation allows external users to redeem invitations from you by signing in to your apps with their existing social or enterprise accounts. See how to set up SAML/WS-Fed IdP federation.

Can you use Federated SAML / WS-fed IDPs in azure?

Federated SAML/WS-Fed IdPs can’t be used in your self-service sign-up user flows. Azure AD is enabled by default for self-service sign-up, so users always have the option of signing up using an Azure AD account. However, you can enable other identity providers, including social identity providers like Google or Facebook.

How to add identity providers for external identities?

When setting up a self-service sign-up user flow, you can add Email One-Time Passcode (Preview) as one of the allowed identity providers. Some setup is required; see Email one-time passcode authentication. Google: Google federation allows external users to redeem invitations from you by signing in to your apps with their own Gmail accounts.

How to integrate Azure AD with Sitecore solution?

Step 1 : Open your Sitecore solution (to which you want to integrate Azure AD) with Visual studio and add an assembly Microsoft.Owin.Security.OpenIdConnect using nugget package manager.

Who are the subjects and users of Sitecore?

Subject/User (Sitecore User): Subjects are the users who wish to access the resources of an organization using federated authentication/SSO. Identity Provider (Azure AD): Identity providers are those parties that authenticate users and issue token/claims to the relying party (SP).

Where can I find the Sitecore boilderplate config?

The app config changes need some boilerplate Sitecore configuration as well as your custom configuration for your authentication provider. Sitecore’s boilderplate config can be found here: \\App_Config\\Include\\Examples\\Sitecore.Owin.Authentication.Enabler.config.example.

How do I request a Sitecore login URL?

The main trick here is that you have to request the login url from Sitecore and do a POST to it. If your site is set up to login via links like Log In then you’ve got some fixing to do.

What are the new features of Sitecore 9?

One of the great new features of Sitecore 9 is the new federated authentication system. You can plug in pretty much any OpenID provider with minimal code and configuration. In this blog I’ll go over how to configure a sample OpenID Connect provider. There’s a few different types of configuration that need to be done to get up and running.

What are the authority and clientsecrets in Sitecore?

The Authority is the url to authenticate against. The ClientID and ClientSecret are similar to a username and password. The ResponseType is a bit tricky though. If you need to make an API call to add aditional claims before Sitecore creates the user then you will need to make sure that it contains the token value.

How to set up ADFS in Sitecore 9?

On Windows Server, from server manager open ADFS Management Console (Tools -> AD FS Management). Right click on Application Groups and add new application group. In the first step of Add Application Group Wizard, enter the name of the group, description and for the template choose Server application accessing a web API, and click Next.

What happens if there is no Sitecore user identity?

At this point, there is still no Sitecore user identity. The result: The user gets redirected back to the login page, the authentication challenge will not be triggered, as the claims cookie is available. Right now we are are missing logic to do an actual “Sitecore user login”. There are bootstrap options to do this:

Which is the default authentication provider for Sitecore?

The Sitecore architecture. Basically, the default user management implementation for Sitecore, is a custom Forms Authentication Provider, which makes use of the default ASP.Net Forms Authentication implementation. Under the hood, these users are partially managed in a standard Asp.Net Membership database.

How to use Sitecore with Azure AD service?

Sitecore reads the claims issued for an authenticated user during the external authentication process and allow access to perform Sitecore operations based on the role claim. We need to first create an azure AD service using our Azure subscription, follow below steps to configure Azure AD service.