After 2 days of research ,now i am at assumption that ADFS can be used as Identity Provider which uses Active Directory as its Repository (this means we can store Username,password... required to identify user) .My confusions are
When a user opens a login Page in SP ,and if there is trust
relationship between SP and ADFS(IP) ,does the IP takes the windows
logged in UserId to check user from active directory ?
If the authentication is successful then does IP sends
UserInformation(as a SAML responce) to SP ,so that i can create
session for logged in user ?
what should i do ,if user logs out from SP ,should i also have to
clear session in IP(now ADFS)
if my assumption are right ,how to implement ADFS as Identity Provider (IP) and consume its service in Asp.net Application (Service Provider) ?
When the SP notices that the user is not signed in it sends the user to the IDP. This is where the login page is presented. ADFS can be configured to authenticate the user based on the signed in windows user.
Yes ADFS can be configured to return user information in the SAML response. This is defined as claims in ADFS
When the user is logged out in the SP, the SP should send a SAML LogoutRequest to the IDP to remove the session on the IDP.
Here is a library I have seen others use for .net
Another option is to use a product such as Shibboleth in front of you application
Your question is: "How to implement ADFS as Identity Provider (IP) and consume its service in Asp.net Application (Service Provider)"
Then you have tagged it with SAML?
Why do you want to use SAML? (And here I am talking about SAML the protocol NOT SAML the token).
Just use WS-Federation and WIF which is OOTB support. WS-Fed also uses SAML tokens.
If you want to use SAML, refer SAML : SAML connectivity / toolkit and SAML : ASP.NET MVC application talking to SAML IDP .
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One of my customers wanted to implement SSO using ADFS. I was thinking to do a POC for the same using ADFS in Azure. But one requirement is only some users have ADFS login and other user needs to use custom authentication using the identity provider.
Is it possible to use custom and ADFS authentication in the same web application? Like presenting a page with sign-in using SSO or sign-in with credentials?
My client just shared the federatedmetadata.xml. (Do we need to give the full URL DNS name + metadata URL when you create the new project?).
Is it possible to use custom and ADFS authentication in the same web application? Like presenting a page with sign-in using SSO or sign-in with credentials?
If you're open to it, you could integrate your application with an identity provider, and that provider does this for you.
For example:
Your application integrates with CAS as the IDP, and CAS presents this screen to the end user for the authn attempt. User can choose either option, and then once completed, they will be redirected back to your application to continue, and your application interacts with CAS to validate the user account/session. CAS itself is connected to your own account store, and is also integrated with ADFS.
What do you mean by "ADFS in Azure". The only way to do this is to run ADFS as a VM in Azure. Otherwise, you would use Azure AD.
Yes, you can federate ADFS with other identity providers so they both are accessible from the same login screen.
What other identity providers are you looking at?
ADFS is not a project, it's a server add-on and it's all done via configuration on the Windows server.
In terms of importing metadata, see this.
We want to build one spring MVC based application which will support below use case:
User access the application URL to login into application.
Once the valid credentials are entered to login into application, the user can access any of the service provider application for performing SSO.
On the access of any service provider application the SAML response should be generated and post to the Service provider ACS(Assertion consumer service) URL.
Also in addition to IDP initiated SSO, it should also support SP initiated SSO where the authentication request will we posted to the application login page, after valid credentials are entered by user, the application should redirect to service provider(which have posted the authentication request).
The application should have its own login page and authentication mechanism, it should not redirect to any other identity provider for authentication.
Should we use normal Spring MVC based application which will generated the SAML response using open SAML library, or any other SAML builder can be used for satisfying the above use case.
This basically means
- your app bundles a SAMLv2 compliant IdP (please don't try to build one yourself based on some SAML lib)
- your app calls an API of the IdP for authentication and issues a session token the IdP will recognize later on (otherwise authentication will always happen again when another application (acting as SAMLv2 SP) wants to perform SSO
Issue with the latter: The "token" will most likely be a cookie and then the restrictions of the cookie spec apply. This means you can only use host-based cookies (which security mandates) if your app and the IdP are deployed behind the same 'FQDN' (e.g. by using an HTTP reverse-proxy)
Another issue: How does your app know when the show the 'login screen' if the user actually has a valid session with the IdP because SSO was started at a different SP?
SAML way: You would first have to do a 'passive AuthnRequest' to check this.
Conclusion: Your use case can be achieved, but the effort seems quite high. I'm not aware that there is some lib/framework, which would offers this at the moment OOTB.
My asp.net web site is .NET 4.5, we get metadata.xml file from the partner company and gave them also our metadata.xml file. they say that they use SAML 2.0 so i am a little beat confuse but i guess we fall to the Ws-Federation scenario for authenication (and NOT Web SSO SAML Protocol). we want to implement SP-Initiated :
Does my asp.net web site default page need to do redirect to IdP server when doing web sso with ADFS 2.0 and SAML 2.0 or maybe it done by the ADFS infra?
(the Idp server is also ADFS2.0+SAML2.0)
Does my asp.net web site need to do make a logout request to do the IdP server?
Does my asp.net web site default page just need to extract the claims from the http user context and take for example the user email address and mark this user as logged in?
SP Initiated is SAML not WS-Fed so you need to go the SAML protocol route.
Easiest way is to use WIF (older technology) or the newer OWIN WS-Fed libraries on the ASP.NET application side.
This will then do all the redirection to ADFS for you.
It will return a Claims Principal which will contain all the claims.
yes (You need to be redirected on IDP server to enter the credentials)
yes (Logout request should be made to IDP server as well)
I'm not sure about the net application but according to SAML specification you will receive a response from IDP and you need to check if logout was successful or not.
I am working on a web application which should authenticate users via ADFS. WS-FED Passive was chosen as the simplest and fastest to implement.
The setup went smooth and the application seemed working: a user is first redirected to the the Identity Provider service, enters username/password and in case of success a SAML token is POSTed back to the web app.
Here where I get confused: a SAML token can be validated via the Signature and X509Certificate data which are contained in it.
However, what is the proper mechanism to verify that the token was POSTed by the Identity Provider service, not by a third-party which also posesses the certificate?
I have an ASP.NET application which uses login cookies already. I need to provide a link in my application upon clicking which the user should be able to access their info in SalesForce.com using SSO. I'm planning to implement this link as an ASP page that constructs a SAML assertion with the corresponding username in SalesForce.com, posts the SAML assertion to SalesForce.com SAML Endpoint URL, receives the SAML response from SalesForce.com and redirects the user to the session URL contained in the response.
Has anyone tried this approach instead of using a dedicated SSO server (such as OpenAM) ? Are there any issues in this approach ?
You won't be able to do that, because it would require you to implement most of SAML IdP (identity provider) piece on your own.
SAML is a complex standard involving multiple interactions between IdP and SP (service provider), it is so much more than just sending an assertion.
To enable SAML you'll need to install IdP (like OpenAM), connect it to your user database and to convert your application to SP.
Wikipedia has more detail on SAML iteractions.