Connect your site to a SAML/CAS IDentity Provider (IDP) as a Service Provider (SP) or configure your Elgg installation as an IDP

SimpleSAML

Connect your site to a SAML/CAS IDentity Provider (IDP) as a Service Provider (SP) or configure your Elgg installation as an IDP., _(*1)

Requirements

Act as SAML Service Provider (SP)
Act as CAS Service Provider (SP)
Act as SAML Identity Provider (IDP)
Use multiple external IDP's (autodetects configured IDP's)
Login with federated accounts
Optionally create accounts based on federated account data
Link existing account to multiple external accounts
Force authentication to an external IDP
All your users will be forced to login using the configured external IDP
Automaticly create user accounts based on the information provided by the external IDP
This requires that the following attributes are set in the configuration of the SP
- elgg:email => the email address of the user
- elgg:firstname or elgg:lastname => because we need to create a displayname
- elgg:external_id => to link the newly created account to the external account
Automaticly link existing users based on their profile information and information from the IDP
This requires that the following attributes are set in the configuration of the SP
- elgg:external_id => the unique ID of the user on the IDP side
- elgg:auto_link => the value that the configured profile field must have to automaticly link the user

12/12 2017

9999999-dev

Connect your site to a SAML/CAS IDentity Provider (IDP) as a Service Provider (SP) or configure your Elgg installation as an IDP

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GPL-2.0

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