Joomla Single Sign-On (SSO) login for Magento [SAML] can be achieved by using our Magento SAML SP Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin. Our SSO solution will make Magento SAML 2.0 compliant Service Provider establishing trust between the Magento site and Joomla to securely authenticate and login users to the Magento site. Our Magento Single Sign-On (SSO) solution helps to secure Magento sites behind the SSO login so that users are authenticated using their Joomla login credentials. Seamless support for advanced SSO features like Attribute / Custom Mapping, Role Mapping etc.

SAML allows information to be exchanged between Service Providers and Identity Providers; SAML is the integration of Service Providers and Identity Providers. When a user attempts to log in, your Service provider delivers SAML assertions to Identity Provider, which contain information about the user. The assertion is received by Identity Provider, which validates it against your Service Provider settings before allowing the user access to your org.

Here we will go through a guide to configure SAML Single Sign-On SSO login between Magento site and Joomla by considering Joomla as IdP (Identity Provider) and Magento as SP (Service Provider). Our SSO plugin provides Unlimited user authentications from Joomla. To know more about other features we provide in you Magento SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin, you can click here.

SAML Single Sign On – SAML SSO Login

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Magento Single Sign On SSO login with Azure AD, Azure B2C, ADFS, Okta, Keycloak, Salesforce, Ping, Bitium, Gsuite, Shibboleth & many SAML IdPs [24/7 SUPPORT]

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Steps to configure Joomla SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Login into Magento SAML SP

1. Setup Joomla as IdP (Identity Provider)

Follow the steps below to configure Joomla as IdP for Magento

 Configure Joomla as IdP

• In the Magento SAML SP SSO plugin, navigate to Service Provider Metadata tab. In this tab you will find the SP metadata such as SP Entity ID and ACS (AssertionConsumerService) URL which are required to configure Joomla as the Identity Provider.

• Login with your Joomla Administrator Account credentials.
• Go to System tab.

• Select Extension from the Install section.

• Click on Install from Web.

• Also, you can search for SAML IDP in search box and click on Search Icon then select miniOrange SAML 2.0 IDP for Joomla plugin.

• Click on Install button to enable the plugin into the joomla site.

• In the Components tab from the left menu sidebar and click on miniOrange Joomla IDP then select Service Provider.

• In the miniOrange Joomla IDP plugin, go to Service Provider tab of the plugin. There are two way to configure miniOrage Joomla IDP SAML Single Sign-On plugin:

A. By Upload SP Metadata

• Click on Upload SP Metadata button.
• Enter Service Provider Name as per your choice (like: miniOrange, Magento etc)
• Click on Upload Metadata and click on Upload to fetch your information.
• You can either Enter Metadata URLand click on Fetch Metadata button.


B. Manual Configuration

• Provide the required settings (i.e. Service Provider Name, SP Entity ID or Issuer, ACS URL and NameID Format) find to your Identity Provider Joomla and click on Save button to save your configuration.

Service Provider Name	Enter name of Service Provider as per your choice
SP Entity ID or Issuer	Copy SP Entity ID/Issuer from Service Provider Metadataand paste it.
ACS URL	Copy SP ACS URL from Service Provider Metadata and paste it.
NameID Format	urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
Assertion Signed	Checked


• In the miniOrange Joomla IDP plugin, navigate to Identity Provider tab. Here, you can find the IDP metadata such as IDP-EntityID / Issuer, SAML Login URL and Certificate (Optional) which are required to configure the Service Provider (Magento), Copy it and keep it handy.


You have successfully configured Joomla as SAML IdP (Identity Provider) for achieving Joomla Single Sign-On (SSO) Login, ensuring secure Joomla Login into Magento Site.

2. Configure Magento as SP (Service Provider)

• 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 Service 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 Service URL	SAML Single-Sign-On Endpoint URL in the Federation Metadata document
X.509 Certificate	x.509 Certificate in the Federation Metadata document

• Click on Save button to save all your settings.

• To check if your Magento as SP is configured correctly, click the Test Configuration button.


3. Sign-In Settings

• Navigate to Sign-in Settings tab. Here you find the option the enable the login link on Admin*/Customer Login Page (*Admin SSO is available in the premium versions)

• If you want to initate SSO from any page you can also use the SSO link provided in the extension.

• The Premium extension also provides you the the feature to auto redirect your user to the IdP Login Page if the user is not already logged in.


4. Customer / Admin SSO

• Customer Single Sign-On (Customer SSO)
• Admin Single Sign-On (Admin SSO)






• Go to customer login page and you will see the SSO button on your frontend. Click on the button and test the SSO.

• You will be sucessfully logged in into Magento.




• Visit your admin login page and you will see the SSO button on your admin page. Click on the button to initate SSO as an admin.

• After sucessfully logged into magento as admin you will be redirect to magento backend dashboard.


Attribute Mapping / Custom Attribute Mapping(Optional). *This is Premium feature.

1.1: Attribute Mapping (Optional).

• 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 Magento user attributes like firstname, lastname etc.
• While auto registering the users in your Magento site these attributes will automatically get mapped to your Magento user details.
• Only NameID can be mapped to Magento's Email and Username characteristics with the free plugin. Multiple user attributes from the IdP, on the other hand, can be mapped to Magento attributes in the premium version of the plugin. You can map custom attributes that you've added to your IdP in addition to the default attributes.
• When a user performs SSO, the NameID value sent by the IdP will get mapped to the email and the username of the Magento user.


Username:	Name of the username attribute from IdP (Keep NameID by default)
Email:	Name of the email attribute from IdP (Keep NameID by default)
Group/Role:	Name of the Role attribute from Identity Provider (IdP)

• You can check the Test Configuration Results under Service Provider Setup tab to get a better idea of which values to map here.

1.2: Custom Attribute Mapping (Optional). *This is Premium feature.

• Enter your table name in Table field.
• Enter attribute name as your column name (in the respective table)
• Click on Add button for adding custom magento attribute and map the respective field with the attribute receiving from your identity provider
• Click on save button for saving the configuration.
• You can also delete the configuration by entering the name in attribute name field and then click on delete button.


Role Mapping (Optional). *This is Premium feature.

• You can specify a default role in the free plugin that will be allocated to all non-admin users when they conduct SSO.
• Go to Attribute/Role mapping tab and navigate to Role Mapping section.
• Select the Default Role and click on the Save button.


In this Guide, you have successfully configured Joomla SAML Single Sign-On (Joomla SSO Login) choosing Joomla as IdP and Magento as SP using Magento SAML Sigle Sign-On (SSO) Login plugin .This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure access to your Magento site using Joomla login credentials within minutes.




Additional Resources

• What is Single Sign-On (SSO) Login?
• What is SAML? How SAML SSO works?
• Magento SAML Single Sign On (SSO) Plugin.
• How to configure SSO with Azure AD.



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