[keycloak-user] IDP Initiated Login

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Wed Feb 22 23:23:50 EST 2017


IDP Initiated SSO means that the login is unsolicited,meaning that the 
application did not initiate the login.  OAuth protocol (and thus OIDC) 
does not support this.  The application has to initiate the login.  I'm 
not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but if you just want a page 
where you can see a list of apps that you can visit, you can just create 
a simple static web page with links to your apps formatted and pretty as 
you want it.

Some IDPs or apps, Saleforce.com I think, require SAML IDP Initiated SSO 
and don't support the regular login protocol.


On 2/22/17 10:18 PM, John D. Ament wrote:
> Ok, I must have fat fingered there at the end. Sorry.
>
> With that said, assuming that I want IDP initiated login, it seems 
> like what I have to do is:
>
> - Create a SAML client in Keycloak for my application.
> - Follow the IDP initiated flow from 
> https://keycloak.gitbooks.io/server-adminstration-guide/content/topics/clients/saml/idp-initiated-login.html
> - Point my IDP to the endpoint that gets generated in here.
>
> As a result, it seems like I don't have to even create a SAML IDP in 
> Keycloak, unless that somehow gets used for SP initiated.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:15 PM John D. Ament <john.d.ament at gmail.com 
> <mailto:john.d.ament at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     This is the part that's confusing me.  What do you mean by a "URL
>     somewhere that links to your app which will then redirect to
>     keycloak"?
>
>     Are you talking about triggering the inbound IDP initiated by
>     first calling into my app?
>
>     If I look at (Okta for instance) they actually have a portal-like
>     site that users can leverage to directly link to their apps.  The
>     links generated here are doing IDP initiated SSO, by triggering
>     SAML in the broker then the broker is expected to forward to the
>     client (and mind you, I know very little about SAML, but this is
>     how I'm seeing it behave in the browser).
>
>     With that said, assum
>
>
>     On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:50 PM Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com
>     <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>         OIDC/OAuth doesn't have an IDP initiated protocol.  You'll have to
>         create a URL somewhere that links to your app which will then
>         redirect
>         to Keycloak.
>
>
>         On 2/22/17 8:23 PM, John D. Ament wrote:
>         > Looks like I answered half of my question -
>         > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-4454
>         >
>         > Seems like it will only work if I'm using SAML.
>         >
>         > John
>         >
>         > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 5:18 PM John D. Ament
>         <john.d.ament at gmail.com <mailto:john.d.ament at gmail.com>>
>         > wrote:
>         >
>         >> Changing the subject to be a bit clearer about the problems.
>         >>
>         >> I think I'm understanding a bit further. when reading through
>         >>
>         https://keycloak.gitbooks.io/server-adminstration-guide/content/topics/clients/saml/idp-initiated-login.html
>         >>
>         >> - It seems like my application has to be SAML.  I cannot do
>         an OIDC based
>         >> solution.
>         >> - First thing I have to do is add IDP Initiated SSO URL
>         Name to my
>         >> application.
>         >> - The confusing part is about if my application requires...
>         this seems a
>         >> bit odd, since I'm using the Keycloak adapter but sure.
>         >> - The part that's missing is what gets setup in the actual
>         broker.  You
>         >> mention IDP Initiated SSO URL Name but I don't see that
>         field in IDPs.  In
>         >> general these look like Keycloak specific parameters.
>         >>
>         >> Any thoughts?
>         >>
>         >> John
>         >>
>         >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:18 AM John D. Ament
>         <john.d.ament at gmail.com <mailto:john.d.ament at gmail.com>>
>         >> wrote:
>         >>
>         >> Ok, so I was able to get SP initiated working fine.  I had
>         only tried IDP
>         >> when I sent this mail out.
>         >>
>         >> I'm going through this doc, and its not clear to me on a
>         few areas:
>         >>
>         https://keycloak.gitbooks.io/server-adminstration-guide/content/topics/clients/saml/idp-initiated-login.html
>         >>
>         >> - I have my application (the SP) and the SAML IDP (Okta in
>         this case).  I
>         >> have a link on the okta portal to login automatically to my SP.
>         >> - I think the webpage is saying that this only works if I'm
>         using the SAML
>         >> connector for keycloak, is that accurate?
>         >> - All of my Okta settings are from getting SP initiated
>         working.  Do any
>         >> of those need to change?
>         >> - Do I in fact setup Okta as a SAML client in Keycloak?
>         >>
>         >> John
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 8:47 PM John D. Ament
>         <john.d.ament at gmail.com <mailto:john.d.ament at gmail.com>>
>         >> wrote:
>         >>
>         >> Hi
>         >>
>         >> Just wondering, has anyone setup Keycloak w/ Okta?  Every
>         time I try to
>         >> authenticate (both SP initiated and IdP initiated) it fails
>         with this error
>         >>
>         >> 01:40:54,626 WARN  [org.keycloak.events] (default task-7)
>         >> type=IDENTITY_PROVIDER_LOGIN_ERROR, realmId=tenant1,
>         clientId=null,
>         >> userId=null, ipAddress=172.17.0.1, error=staleCodeMessage
>         >> 01:40:54,627 ERROR
>         [org.keycloak.services.resources.IdentityBrokerService]
>         >> (default task-7) staleCodeMessage
>         >>
>         >> I suspect its a setup issue on my side, so was hoping
>         someone else has
>         >> tried this and can give tips.  I even tried the import
>         feature, no luck.
>         >>
>         >> John
>         >>
>         >>
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