Feide as Identity Provider with Joomla as Service Provider

User wanted Joomla site (SSO) login with Feide credentials which is a centralized identity management solution for education sector (Norway). miniOrange Joomla SAML SSO plugin provides secure access to sites for enterprises and full control over access of applications, Single Sign-On (SSO) into your site with one set of login credentials.

How miniOrange Single Sign-On service works with Feide?

 Flow Diagram


• User clicks on SAML SSO link on Joomla site.
• miniOrange Joomla site sends SAML request to Feide Identity Provider.
• Feide IdP parses the SAML request and redirects to Identity Server Login page.
• User enters the username & password. If valid credentials are entered, IdP sends SAML Response to the miniOrange Joomla site with the email address and other attributes of the user.
• miniOrange Joomla site receives SAML response, parses the email ID of the user. If a valid email address is found, it logs in the user into self-service console.

Benefits of using miniOrange Joomla SSO Solution:

1. Ease Of Access: For the end users, it reduces the responsibility of managing multiple sets of usernames and passwords.

2. Easy to integrate: Easily integrate your existing Identity Provider or Data Source and provide a SSO solution without having to build a new system/framework.

3. Manage Users on existing system: With Auto sync and JIT (Just In Time Provisioning) administrators can manage their users in their own existing system without having to move users or maintain them in multiple applications.

4. Future Proof: If your apps grow in future which need SSO (either SAML based or non-SAML based), then easily deploy access to these applications for your users with few easy steps.

5. Cost effective: No hassle of building or managing a new system for Single Sign On. With user-reverification system make sure only the relevant and active users are using the applications at all times thus reducing the overall cost.