Crowd SAML CA-Identity SSO | SAML SSO Into Crowd Using CA Identity

Crowd SAML app gives the ability to enable SAML Single Sign-On for JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye, and other connected applications from any SAML Identity Providers. Here we will go through a guide to configure SSO between Crowd and Identity Provider. By the end of this guide, your IdP users should be able to login and register to Crowd Software.

Pre-requisites

To configure your Identity Provider integration with Crowd SAML SSO, you need the following items:

Crowd should be installed and configured.
Admin credentials are set up in Crowd.

Pre-configurations to make SSO work

Navigate to Applications->Crowd->Directory and Group and make sure user is allowed to authenticate.
Navigate to Application->Crowd->Remote address and make sure Crowd server's IP Address is configured here.
If you are using Crowd Server/Datacenter version 4.3.0 and above, please navigate to Applications->Crowd->Options. Select Allow to generate user tokens option and Save it.

Free Plugin

Log into your Crowd instance as an admin.
Navigate to the Administration menu and Click Manage Apps.
Click Find new apps or Find new add-ons from the left-hand side of the page.
Locate SAML Single Sign-On for Crowd via search and click on install.

SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd, Install Crowd Add-On through manage apps menu

Premium Plugin

A. License and Plugin Download

Login to miniOrange Admin console.
Navigate to License > Manage License > Release and Download .
Download the jar file from the Download link.
Now, click on the View License button to get the license key.

B. Installation

Log in to the Crowd Admin console.
Navigate to Administration > Manage Apps.
Click on the Upload App and upload the jar file.
Now, click on the Configure button. You will be asked to verify the miniOrange credential and license key.

C. Plugin Activation

Navigate to Crowd Admin Console → Manage Apps.
Click on the Configure button of the miniOrange Crowd SAML SSO plugin.
Log in with your miniOrange account. Once authenticated, you will be prompted to enter the license key.
Enter the license key and click on the verify button.

Step 1: Setup CA Identity Manager as Identity Provider

Follow the steps below to configure CA Identity Manager as an Identity Provider.

Single Sign on Using CA Identity,CA Identity SSO Login, Pre-Requisites Pre-requisite:

To configure CA Identity Manager as IDP, you need the metadata from SAML SSO plugin.

Go to the Service Provider Info tab .
Click on the link https://[application-Domain]/plugins/servlet/saml/metadata.
choose Save As to save data in XML format on your system.

CA Identity SAML SSO, Administrator Login Login as Administrator

Log in to your CA Identity service portal with the administrator account. You're going to be sent to the launchpad.

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Go to Apps and click on add an app.

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Scroll down in the Add App popup window and click Create a SAML SSO app
Fill out the information in each of the steps as given below.

Enable SSO for Your App Using SAML

In Display Name, enter the name of your app and click Continue.

Single Sign on Using CA Identity,CA Identity SSO Login, Enable SSO, Enter name for app

Identity Provider Information

Download IDP Metadata. This is necessary to configure the add-on later. Click on Continue.

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Single Sign on Using CA Identity,CA Identity SSO Login Service Provider Information

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Upload SP metadata to Upload SP metadata and click Continue.
You can also manually enter data. The data can be found in the add- on's SP Info tab.

Information to be entered in CA	Information to copy from the add-on
Assertion Consumer Service URL	ACS URL
Relay State	-
Entity ID	SP Entity ID
NameID Format	Email Address
Binding	POST
Requests Signed	Yes
Certificate	Download the certificate provided in SP Info tab and upload it here

Attribute Mapping

Fill Attribute Mapping as per your requirement. Set Type against NameID to User Attribute and set Value as User Name or Primary Email. These attributes are used to create user in the SP.
Click on Continue and click Finish .

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You’ll be redirected to app Dashboard. Go to Rules. A Rule defines who has the access to app. Click on add rule.
Enter the rule name. Click on Add Filter and select on which basis you want to assign app. You can select a department, type or title. You can add more filters according to your need. Click Continue.
Select the SP app you setup in Then they should have. Click Continue.
You can test the app by selecting a person from that department. Click Finish

Single Sign On (SSO) using CA Identity CA Identity SSO Login, Add new rule

Step 2: Setup Crowd as Service Provider

Configure Single Identity Provider Setup
Configure Multiple Identity Provider(IdP) Setup

Configure Single Identity Provider Setup

Configuring Single IDP

With the information you have been given by Your IDP team, you can configure IDP settings in 2 ways:

By Metadata URL
Manual Configuration

A. By Metadata URL

Click on Import from Metadata in Configure IDP tab
Give IDP Name that you want to.
Enter IDP metadata URL: Enter your metadata URL
If your IDP changes certificates at intervals (Eg. Azure AD), you can select Refresh metadata periodically. Select 5 minutes for the best results.
Click Import

SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd, Import IDP through Metadata URL

B. Manual Configuration

Go to Configure IDP tab and enter the following details

IDP Entity ID
Single Sign On URL
Single Logout URL
X.509 Certificate

SAML Single Sign ON (SSO) into Crowd, Configure IDP Manually

Configure Multiple Identity Provider(IdP) Setup

Configure New IDP

If you already have one IDP & you are looking to add Second IDP then you can do it by performing the following steps.

Navigate to Configure IDP tab.
Click on Add new IDP.
It will present a blank form & you can configure new IDP using steps from Single IdP Setup.

SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd, Add second IDP into Crowd

Configure multiple IDPs

If you have configured more than two IDPs then it will show you the list of IDP that you have configured with Crowd.

Click on Add new IdP button for adding new IDP on Crowd. The steps for adding new IDP will remain the same.

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SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd, Add multiple IDP into Crowd

An operation that you can perform with List of IdPs page.

Add / delete Identity Provider.
Test Connection between Crowd & IdP by click on Test button for respective IDP.
Edit the IdP configuration by clicking on the Edit button.
You can allow an only specific set of users to access Crowd by using Domain Mapping.

Single Sign-On with Multiple Identity Provider(IDP)

Select your IdP from the list. It will redirect you to selected IdP login page.

SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd, login buttons on login page for multiple IDP

SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd, login buttons on login page for multiple IDP

Step 3: Setting up Crowd user profile attributes

Read Only

Disable Attribute Mapping

User Profile

Matching a User

a. Finding correct attributes

Go to Configure IDP tab. Scroll down and click on Test Configuration.
You will see all the values returned by your IDP to Crowd in a table. If you don't see value for First Name, Last Name, Email or Username, make the required settings in your IDP to return this information.
Once you see all the values in Test Configuration, keep the window open and go to User Profile tab.

b. Setting profile attributes

In this tab, fill the values by matching the name of the attribute. For instance, if the Attribute Name in the Test Configuration window is NameID, enter NameID against Username
Setting up both Username and Email is required if you want to let users register. If you want existing users to only login, configure the attribute using which you will match the user in Crowd.

c. Matching a User

Go to User Profile tab
Select Username or Email for Login/Search Crowd user account by
Enter the attribute name from IDP which corresponds to Username or Email using Finding Correct Attributes

Step 4: Assigning groups to users

Read Only

Disable Group Mapping

User Groups

a. Setting default group

Select the users' Default Group in the tab User Groups. If no group is mapped, users are added by default to this group.
You can enable default groups for All Users or New Users using the option. Select None if you don't want to assign any default group to SSO users, using the option Enable Default Groups for.

SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd, Default groups in group mapping

b. Finding Group Attribute

Just like we found Attribute Name for User Profile attributes, we find group attribute.
Go to Configure IDP tab. Scroll down and click on Test Configuration.
You will see all the values returned by your IDP to Crowd in a table. If you don't see value with groups, make the required settings in your IDP to return group names.
Once you see all the values in Test Configuration, keep the window open and go to User Groups tab.
Enter the Attribute Name of group against Group Attribute.
Check Disable Group Mapping option if you don't want to update groups of existing users.

c. Group Mapping

Manual group mapping:

Manual group mapping

Check Restrict User Creation Based on Group Mapping option if you want new users to be created only if at least one of the user's IDP groups is mapped to a group in the application.
For mapping, first select a Crowd group from the dropdown which lists all groups present in Crowd and then enter the name of the IDP group to be mapped in the textbox beside
For example, if you want all users in 'dev' group in IDP to be added to crowd-software-users, you will need to select crowd-software-users from the dropdown and enter 'dev' against crowd-software-users.
Use '+1' and '+10' buttons to add extra mapping fields.
Use '-' button next to each mapping to delete that mapping.

Step 5: SSO Settings

Go to SSO Login Template. Design your own login template that will be used to initiate SSO.

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Set redirect URL after login using Relay State. Keep this empty for coming back to the same page user started from
Enable Auto-redirect to IDP if you want to allow users to login only using IDP. Enable backdoor for emergency

Crowd Connectors

The Crowd SSO connector expands the SAML SSO functionality from Crowd to its connected Atlassian applications where it allows users to login to their applications such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Fisheye while maintaining the users in Crowd.

Note: Click on the icons to view the SSO Connector guide for the application.

Jira

Bamboo

Confluence

Fisheye

Bitbucket

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SAML Single Sign On (SSO) into Crowd using CA Identity as IDP