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SAML Single Sign-On into Joomla using RSA SecurID

miniOrange Joomla SAML SP SSO plugin helps you to integrate your Joomla site to RSA SecurID using SAML 2.0 protocol. Our user-friendly plugin simplifies the process of setting up Single Sign-on (SSO) with RSA SecurID in Joomla, ensuring a secure login experience. This enables users to access various Joomla sites effortlessly using their RSA SecurID IDP credentials.

Our plugin is designed to be compatible with Joomla 3, 4 as well as 5 and works seamlessly with all SAML 2.0 compliant Identity Providers. For a detailed overview of the comprehensive features offered by the Joomla SAML SP plugin, please visit our page here. Below, we provide a step-by-step guide on configuring SAML SSO login between your Joomla site and RSA SecurID, with RSA SecurID serving as the Identity Provider (IDP) and Joomla as the Service Provider (SP).

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In this setup, RSA SecurID serves as the repository for storing users i.e. it will act as the IDP while Joomla is where users will log in using their credentials from RSA SecurID where Joomla SAML SP SSO Plugin will be installed.

  • Login into your Joomla site’s Administrator console.
  • From left toggle menu, click on System, then under Install section click on Extensions.
  • Now click on Or Browse for file button to locate and install the plugin file downloaded earlier.
Install Joomla SAML SP Plugin
  • Installation of plugin is successful. Now click on Get Started!
Get Started with SAML SP Setup
  • Go to the Service Provider Metadata tab, here you can find the Metadata URL, download the metadata XML file, or you can copy the Entity ID and ACS URL directly.
Get Started with SAML SP Setup
  • Login to the RSA SecurID as Super Admin.
  • In the Administration Console, click Application → Application Catalog.
  • Click Create From Template button on the top right corner.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

  • Next to the SAML Direct, click select in the Choose Connector Template page. The Add Connector wizard appears.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

  • Fill the required information in the Basic Information page on the Add Connector wizard:
    • Name: Name of the application for eg. miniOrange Plugin.
    • Description (Optional): Description for your application.
    • Disabled [a checkbox] (optional): Select this only if you want to make this application unavailable to users. When disabled, the application appears in My Application but does not appear in the RSA application portal.
    • Click Next Step button.
    Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

    • Fill the required information in the Connection Profile page.

Connection Profile:

  • Upload the miniOrange plugin’s metadata file and click on the Import Metadata button. You can download it from the Service Provider info tab of the plugin.
  • Verify the configured URLs and clicks on the Save button on the top right corner of the pop-up window.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

Initiate SAML Workflow:

  • Select SP-Initiated, if you want the SSO should be invoked from Application or select IDP-initiated, if you want the user should log in into RSA first and then access Application from his RSA Dashboard.
  • Configure base URL of your Application or you can leave it blank if IDP-initiated is selected.
  • Select Binding type: POST and Signed Checked.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

SAML Identity Provider (Issuer):

  • Upload the public and private key which will be used to signed SAML Response or you can generate new key pair by clicking on the Generate Cert Bundle button.
  • (Optional) Enable checkbox for Include Certificate in Outgoing Assertion.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

Service Provider:

  • Assertion Consumer Service URL and Audience URL should be pre-configured if you have uploaded plugin’s metadata in the Connection Profile section. If not, you can find the required URLs from Service Provider Info tab of the miniOrange SAML plugin and update the URL here.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

User Identity:

  • Configure NameID information that identifies the user on whose behalf the SAML Assertion is generated.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

Advanced Configuration: Attribute Extension

  • Configure additional user information to be sent to the Application in the SAML Response, for example, username, email, display name, groups etc.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

Advanced Configuration: Uncommon Formatting SAML Response

  • Sign outgoing Assertion:- Assertion within Response.
  • Encrypt Assertion (Optional): If checked, you need to load miniOrange plugin’s public certificate and you can download it from the Service Provider Info tab of the plugin.
  • Unchecked Send encoded URL in Assertion.
  • Checked include issuer NameID format and select NameID Format as Unspecified.
  • Save the configuration and move to the next page i.e. User Access page.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

  • Define application access in the User Access page.
  • Configure application display settings for RSA end users like app icon etc and save the settings.
  • Now, In the Administration Console, click Application -> My Application.
  • Find the app that you have configured and click on Edit -> Export Metadata. Keep the metadata handy, it will require to configure miniOrange plugin.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

  • Click on Publish Changes in the top left corner of the RSA Admin Console to publish this configuration and immediately activate it.
Configure RSA SecurID as IDP

In Joomla SAML plugin, go to Service Provider Setup tab. There are three ways to configure the plugin:

A. By uploading IDP metadata:

  • In Joomla SAML plugin, go to Service Provider Setup tab, then click on Upload IdP Metadata.
Upload IdP Metadata

B. By Metadata URL:

  • Enter Metadata URL (Copy from IDP app) and click on Fetch button.
Upload IdP Metadata

C. Manual Configuration:

  • Copy SAML Entity ID, SAML Single-Sign-On Endpoint URL and X.509 certificate from Federation Metadata document and paste it in Idp Entity ID or Issuer, Single Sign-on URL, X.509 Certificate fields respectively in the plugin.
IdP Entity ID or Issuer SAML Entity ID in the Federation Metadata document
Single Sign-On URL SAML Single-Sign-On Endpoint URL in the Federation Metadata document
X.509 Certificate Value X.509 Certificate in the Federation Metadata document
Upload IdP Metadata
  • Attributes are user details that are stored in your Identity Provider.
  • Attribute Mapping helps you to get user attributes from your Identity Provider (IDP) and map them to Joomla user attributes like firstname, lastname, address, phone etc.
  • While auto registering the users in your Joomla site these attributes will automatically get mapped to your Joomla user details.
  • Go to Attribute Mapping tab and fill in all the fields.
Username: Name of the username attribute from IdP (Keep NameID by default)
Email: Name of the email attribute from IdP (Keep NameID by default)
Name: Name of the name attribute from IdP
Joomla Attribute Mapping
  • You can check the Test Configuration Results under Service Provider Setup tab to get a better idea of which values to map here.

Note: You can see how Attribute Mapping works here.

  • Group/Role mapping helps you to assign specific roles to users of a certain group in your Identity Provider (IdP).
  • While auto registering, the users are assigned roles based on the group they are mapped to.
Joomla Group Mapping
  • Group/Role mapping helps you to assign specific roles to users of a certain group in your Identity Provider (IdP).
  • While auto registering, the users are assigned roles based on the group they are mapped to.

Note: You can see how Group/Role Mapping works here.

  • Go to Login Settings tab. You can add login Url to Perform SAML SSO in your Joomla site by following the steps below.
  • There are multiple features available in this tab like Auto redirect the user to Identity Provider and Enable Backend Login for Super Users. To use these features, click on the respective checkboxes.
Joomla Group Mapping
  • Click on the Upgrade tab to check out our complete list of features and various licensing plans. OR you can click here to check features and licensing plans.
  • In case, you are facing some issue or have any question in mind, you can reach out to us by sending us your query through the Support button in the plugin or by sending us a mail at joomlasupport@xecurify.com.
More FAQs ➔

There are a couple of reasons why this can happen:

1. Caching is enabled on the website.
When auto-redirect is enabled, the user is redirected to the IDP login page and after logging in back to the main site but as caching is enabled it redirects to the IDP login page hence a loop.

2. HTTP/HTTPS discrepancy:
This happens when HTTPS is not enforced on the site but is configured on the IDP side with an HTTPS URL. This can be solved by enforcing HTTPS on the site by defining a redirect rule in the .htaccess file or at the Apache level.

3. Cookie adulteration:
The cookie created by the plugin after logging in the user is altered by another plugin which causes the user to not log in to the Joomla site but the session is created on IDP.

In Joomla SAML plugin, when an extension is not enabled after installing the plugin, after clicking on ‘Test Configuration’ it takes you to your own site instead of redirecting you to IDP. To resolve it, you need to enable all the extensions of the plugin after installing it.

Please follow the below steps to resolve this issue:

1. In the Joomla admin interface, go to Extensions -> Manage -> Manage.
2. Search for ‘miniorange’.
3. Enable all the extensions of the plugins.

Here are some frequent errors that can occur:

INVALID_ISSUER: This means that you have NOT entered the correct Issuer or Entity ID value provided by your Identity Provider. You’ll see in the error message what was the expected value (that you have configured) and what actually found in the SAML Response.
INVALID_AUDIENCE: This means that you have NOT configured Audience URL in your Identity Provider correctly. It must be set to https://base-url-of-your-joomla-site/plugins/authentication/miniorangesaml/ in your Identity Provider.
INVALID_DESTINATION: This means that you have NOT configured Destination URL in your Identity Provider correctly. It must be set to https://base-url-of-your-joomla-site/plugins/authentication/miniorangesaml/saml2/acs.php in your Identity Provider.
INVALID_SIGNATURE: This means that the certificate you provided did not match the certificate found in the SAML Response. Make sure you provide the same certificate that you downloaded from your IdP. If you have your IdP’s Metadata XML file then make sure you provide certificate enclosed in X509 Certificate tag which has an attribute use=’ signing’.
INVALID_CERTIFICATE: This means that the certificate you provided is not in a proper format. Make sure you have copied the entire certificate provided by your IdP. If copied from IdP’s Metadata XML file, make sure that you copied the entire value.

This is possible only when a certificate coming in SAML Response does not match with the certificate configured in the plugin. Copy the certificate value shown in the Test Configuration window and paste it in X.509 Certificate field in the Service Provider tab in the plugin.

Please follow the steps to the export configuration:
1) Go to the miniOrange SAML SP plugin and navigate to the Service Provider Setup tab.
2) Then click on the Import/Export button at the bottom of the page and then click on the Export Configuration button.
3) Navigate to System >> Manage and search miniOrange in the search bar. Then uninstall all miniOrange extensions.

Please follow the steps to import configuration:
1) Install the latest plugin and log in with your miniOrange credentials in the plugin.
2) Navigate to the Service Provider Setup tab and click on Import/Export button.
3) Upload the downloaded configuration file and then click on the Import Configuration button.

While updating Joomla SAML Plugin, if table or column is not added to the database then you will get a missing table error. This issue generally arises when a table or column is not added to the database while updating the plugin.
You can reinstall the plugin to resolve this issue, please follow the below steps:

Uninstall the existing plugin (Take the backup of the existing plugin before uninstalling the plugin)
– Go to Extensions -> Manage -> Manage
– Search for miniOrange
– Select all the extensions and click ‘Uninstall’.
Now install the plugin again and configure it.

A Joomla site can be either used as a Service Provider or an Identity Provider using the relevant SP or IDP plugin. You are facing this error probably because you have installed both the plugins on the same site.
In order to resolve this issue, please follow the below-mentioned steps: Delete the following folders from your Joomla directory:

1. /libraries/miniorangejoomlaidpplugin
2. /libraries/miniorangesamlplugin
3. /plugins/system/samlredirect
Now you should be able to log into your Joomla site.

Remove the remaining extensions:

1. In your Joomla site administrator console, go to Extensions -> Manage -> Manage.
2. Search for ‘miniorange’
3. Select all extensions and click Uninstall

The redirection issue occurs while using the Admin Tools plugin for Joomla SAML SSO, where the Admin Tools plugin makes changes in the .htaccess file and adds certain rules that prevent redirection from the site.

You can solve the above issue by following the steps given below:

1. Navigate to Admin tools >> Control Panel then click on the .htaccess maker option.
2. Then disable the option ‘Protect against common file injection attacks’.
Then clear the cache for your site and test for Single Sign-On.

SAML Tracer Logs:

1. Download SAML tracer add-on : Firefox: [ Link ] | Chrome:[ Link ] 2. Open the SAML tracer from the Browser toolbar.
3. Keep the SAML tracer window open.
4. Perform SSO/Test configuration and reproduce the issue.
5. Go to SAML tracer window.
6. You will get the option to Export SAML Tracer Log in a file (On top menu bar). Save the logs to a file, choose ‘None‘ when prompted and send us this file.

It seems that your Identity Provider is sending an error in the SAML Response. To troubleshoot this, please go to the Service Provider Setup tab of the SAML SP Plugin. Click on the Test Configuration and review the configuration result window. Ensure that the Attribute Mapping has been done correctly and verify that the X.509 Certificate Value is accurate.



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