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Is Google an identity provider?
It is external to Google and therefore referred to as an external identity provider. When you enable single sign-on, Cloud Identity or Google Workspace relays authentication decisions to the SAML IdP. Each Cloud Identity or Google Workspace account can refer to at most one external IdP.
Does Google support SSO?
Single sign-on (SSO) lets users sign in to all their enterprise cloud applications using their managed Google account credentials. Google offers pre-integrated SSO with over 200 popular cloud applications.
How is OpenID Connect used in Google Apps?
Google is committed to advancing racial equity for Black communities. See how. Google’s OAuth 2.0 APIs can be used for both authentication and authorization. This document describes our OAuth 2.0 implementation for authentication, which conforms to the OpenID Connect specification, and is OpenID Certified.
Where can I find the OpenID Connect discovery document?
The Discovery document for Google’s OpenID Connect service may be retrieved from: https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration. To use Google’s OpenID Connect services, you should hard-code the Discovery-document URI ( https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration) into your application.
What are the parameters for an OpenID Connect request?
For a basic request, specify the following parameters: client_id, which you obtain from the API Console Credentials page . response_type, which in a basic authorization code flow request should be code. (Read more at response_type .)
How are ID tokens used in OpenID Connect?
ID tokens are a standardized feature of OpenID Connect designed for use in sharing identity assertions on the Internet. The most commonly used approaches for authenticating a user and obtaining an ID token are called the “server” flow and the “implicit” flow.