SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) in Box (SP) | Magento – Box SSO Login

Overview

Login into Box using Magento user credentials. This guide will help you integrate Magento as a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (IdP) and Box as a Service Provider (SP) using the miniOrange Magento SAML IDP (Identity Provider) Extension. Magento SAML IDP extenstion gives you the ability to use your Magento credentials to login into Box (SP). Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure SSO between Box Server as SP (Service Provider) and Magento as IDP (Identity Provider).

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Installation Steps

Prerequisites

• Log in to your Box account as Account Admin and navigate to Admin Console.


• In the left sidebar, click Enterprise Settings >> User Settings.


• Scroll down to the Configure Single Sign On (SSO) section, then click Configure.


• Go to Box SSO Questionnaire and provide the necessary information to setup Box as Identity Provider (IdP).
• Enter the Email Address and other required fields.
• Select Other with Metadata from who is your Identity Provider? dropdown.


• Enter the Company Box Subdomain field.
• Now choose and upload the Metadata File in the xml format which you have downloaded.
• Fill in the required fields and click on Submit.


• It can take up to 24 hours to process the metadata. Once the file has been processed, Box sends a notification to the email address of the main account admin.
• You can now enable SSO for your enterprise. Begin by enabling SSO Test Mode. In Test Mode, you can log in using SSO credentials. Also verify that you can log out and in again using SSO credentials before you continue.
• After you have tested that the SSO login flow is working correctly, you can enable SSO Required.

Steps to configure Box SAML Single Sign-on (SSO) Login into Magento 2

Configuring Magento as SAML Identity Provider (IdP):

• In the miniOrange IDP (Identity Provider) extension, go to Applications tab.


• Search for Box in the choose application searchbox and select the application.


• Enter the Application name under SP Name.


• Now, enter the SP Entity ID or Issuer and ACS URL copied earlier and save the details.

Configure ASP.NET as Service Provider:

• Navigate to the Applications tab and click on Metadata settings for the Box application


• Here, you can find the Identity Provider Metadata URL /XML Metadata or endpoints like IDP Entity ID, SAML Login URL, SAML Logout URL (Premium Feature), Certificate. You can also download the IdP Metadata XML file which will be used for Box Server configuration.


• You will now have 3 options to provide the IDP Metadata to Box server by downloading the XML Metadata, Metadata URL or providing the detials manually.
• Option 1 - Download the XML Metadata.
• Download the XML Metadata by clicking it on Download XML Metadata button.


• Navigate to your Box and upload the XML metadata file downloaded and click on the Fetch Metadata button.
• Option 2 - Provide the details manually to the Box.
• Copy the metadata details according to the table below.




IDP-EntityID / Issuer	IDP-EntityID / Issuer
Single Sign On URL	SAML Login URL / Passive Login URL
SAML X509 Certificate	Certificate

• Navigate to your Box and paste the metadata details.

Attribute Mapping *(This is a Premium Feature)

• In the miniOrange Magento IDP extension, navigate to the Applications tab and click on Edit settings for the Box application.


• Click on Add Attribute button.


• Add the attribute name you want to send to your service provider and select the attribute from the dropdown menu and click on Save Button to save changes.



You have successfully configured the SAML SSO between Box as SAML SP and Magento as SAML IDP.




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