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SAML Single Sign-on 🔐 with Okta as the Identity Provider
SAML Single Sign-on 🔐 with Okta as the Identity Provider

How to setup SAML SSO with Okta as the Identity Provider (IdP)?

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Written by Mohamed Berrada
Updated over a month ago

Before proceeding with this article, ensure that you have read our article about SAML Single Sign-on 🔐

Here, we will outline the steps to set up Okta as an Identity Provider.

1️⃣ Create an Okta SAML Web application

  1. Log in to the Okta Developer Console

  2. Sign in with an administrator account

  3. From the left sidebar, expand Applications, then click on Applications

  4. Click on Create App Integration

  5. Choose SAML 2.0 as the Sign-in method

  6. Click on next

  7. Enter an App name for your application (e.g. "Fabriq") and click on Next

2️⃣ Configure the application for SAML SSO

  1. On the Configure SAML page, you will need to enter the following information, ℹ️ reach out to us so that we can provide it to you:

    • Single sign-on URL

    • Audience URI (SP Entity ID)

  2. Click on Save

3️⃣ Configure the attributes for SAML SSO

  1. Set Name ID format to Persistent

  2. Set Application username to user.getInternalProperty("id") or any other unique and immutable value

  3. Scroll down to Attribute Statements

  4. Add the following attributes one by one, the name format should be set to unspecified:

    The claims should look like as follows:

  5. Scroll down, click on Next, then on Finish

4️⃣ Assign users to Fabriq

  1. Navigate to the Assignments tab

  2. You can either give access to the Fabriq SAML app to:

    1. everyone in your organization

    2. specific groups/users

5️⃣ Send us the App Federation Metadata file

  1. Navigate back to the Sign On tab

  2. Scroll down to SAML Signing Certificates

  3. Click on the Actions button next to your preferred certificate, then click on View IdP metadata

  4. Copy the URL

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