Moodle SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) using PingFederate as IdP | PingFederate SSO Login

Overview

SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) for your Moodle site can be achieved using our miniOrange SAML SSO plugin. Our plugin is compatible with all the SAML compliant Identity providers. Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure Single Sign-On (SSO) between PingFederate as Identity Provider (IdP) and Moodle as Service Provider (SP).

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Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

To configure PingFederate as IdP with Moodle, you will need to install the miniOrange Moodle SAML 2.0 SSO plugin

Configuration Steps

1. Setup PingFederate as IdP

Follow the steps below to configure PingFederate as an Identity Provider:

Configure PingFederate as IdP

• In the Plugins tab scroll to Service Provider Metadata section you can find the SP metadata such as SP Entity-ID and ACS (AssertionConsumerService) URL which are required to configure the Identity Provider.

• Login to your Ping Federate User Admin dashboard.
• Click on the Identity Provider in the left navigation menu.
• Under SP CONNECTION, click on Create New button.

• Select the Browser SSO Profiles connection template on the Connection Type tab and click Next.

• Select Browser SSO on the Connection Options tab and click Next.

• Select File as the method for importing metadata and click Choose file to choose the miniOrange SSO plugin’s metadata on the Import Metadata tab. Click Next.

• Review the information on the Metadata Summary tab and click Next.
• In the General Info tab ensure that the Service Provider’s Entity ID, Connection Name, and Base URL fields pre-populate based on the metadata. Click Next.
• Navigate to the Browser SSO tab and click on the Configure Browser SSO. You will be redirected to Browser SSO Setup wizard.
  
  
  1) Select the IdP-Initiated SSO and SP-Initiated SSO options on the SAML Profiles tab and click Next.
  
  
  
  
  
  2) Enter your desired assertion validity time from on the Assertion Lifetime tab and click Next. By default, it is configured 5 minutes for both.
  
  3) Navigate to the Assertion Creation and click on the Configure Assertion Creation. You will be redirected to the assertion creation setup wizard.
  
  
  I. In the Identity Mapping tab select STANDARD and click Next.
  
  II. Select a Subject Name Format for the SAML_SUBJECT on the Attribute Contract tab and click Next.
  
  III. Click Map New Adapter Instance on the Authentication Source Mapping.
  
  
  
  
  
  IV. Select an Adapter Instance and click Next. The adapter must include the user’s email address.
  
  
  
  
  
  V. Select the Use only the adapter contract values in the SAML assertion option on the Mapping Method tab and click Next.
  
  VI. Select your adapter instance as the Source and the email as the Value on the Attribute Contract Fulfilment tab and click Next.
  
  
  
  
  
  VII. (Optional) Select any authorization conditions you would like on the Issuance Criteria tab and click Next.
  
  VIII. Click Done on the Summary.
  
  IX. Click Next on the Authentication Source Mapping tab.
  
  X. Click Done on the Summary tab.
  
  XI. Click Next on the Assertion Creation
  
  
  1. Navigate to the Protocol Settings tab of the Browser SSO wizard and click on the Configure Protocol settings.
     
     
     1) Select POST for Binding and specify the single sign-on endpoint URL in the EndpointURL field on the Assertion Consumer Service URL Click Next.
     
     
     
     
     
     2) Select POST on the Allowable SAML Bindings tab and click Next.
     
     3) Select your desired signature policies for assertions on the Signature Policy tab and click Next.
     
     
     
     
     4) Select your desired encryption policy for assertions on the Encryption Policy tab and click Next.
     
     5) Click Done on the Protocol Settings Summary tab.
     
     6) Click Done on the Browser SSO Summary.
     
     
• Navigate to the Credentials and click on the Configure Credentials. You will be redirected to the Credentials setup wizard.
  
  1) Select the Signing Certificate to use with the Single Sign-On service and select Include the certificate in the signature element in the Digital Signature Settings tab. Click Done.
  
  
  
  
  
  2) Click Done on the Summary.
  
  3) Click Next on the Credentials.
  
  
• Select Active for the Connection Status on the Activation & Summary tab and click Save.
• Now, navigate to the Ping Federate User Admin dashboardè Identity Provide.
• Click Manage All under SP Connections.
• Click Export Metadata for the desired service provider connection.
• Click Export on the Export & Summary tab and click Done.

2. Configure Moodle as SP (Service Provider)

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In the miniOrange SAML SSO plugin, go to the Plugins tab. There are two ways to configure the plugin:

A. By uploading IDP metadata:

• Enter the IDP Name.
• In the Service Provider Setup section choose Metadata URL/XML from Select the Method dropdown.
• Copy and paste the IdP metadata URL or XML file in IDP Metadata URL/XML input field.
• Click on the Click here to Test the configuration.

B. Manual Configuration:

• Provide the required settings (i.e. IDP Name, IDP Entity-ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider.
• Click on the Click here to Test the configuration.

Step 3: Attribute Mapping

• When the user performs SSO, the NameID value is sent by the Identity Provider. This value is unique for every user.
• For the plugin to access these attributes, assign the values for Username and Email as NameID.

In the miniOrange SAML SSO plugin, scroll down to the Service Provider Setup section of the plugin. There are two ways to configure the plugin:

A. By uploading IDP metadata:

• Provide any IDP Name. For example, my_IDP.
• Choose the value of Select the Method as Metadata URL/XML from dropdown.
• Enter the Metadata URL as
  https://tenant-name.b2clogin.com/tenant-name.onmicrosoft.com/B2C_1A_signup_signin_saml/Samlp/metadata

Note: You will need to replace the tenant-name in above URl with Azure B2C tenant name.

• Scroll to the bottom and click on Save changes button.

B. Manual Configuration:

• Provide the required settings (i.e. Identity Provider Name, IdP Entity ID or Issuer, SAML Login URL, X.509 Certificate) as provided by your Identity Provider.
• Click on the Save changes button to save your configuration.

Step 3: Attribute Mapping

Basic Attribute Mapping

• When the user performs SSO, the NameID value is sent by the Identity Provider. This value is unique for every user.
• For the plugin to access these attribute assign the Email and Username attribute.
• Addtionally user attributes can be mapped (such as Firstname and Lastname).
• Click on the Save changes button to save your configuration.

Custom Attribute Mapping

This feature allows you to map custom attribute sent by the IDP to the Moodle attributes.

• To create a custom attribute, navigate to Site Administration >> Users >> User Profile Fields in the plugin.
• Click on Create a new profile field , select the type of attribute from dropdown and enter the values in required fields.

• Assign the desired value to the created custom attribute.

• Scroll down and click on the Save changes button to save your configurations.

Step 4: Role Mapping

• In the free plugin, you can choose a default role that will be assigned to all the non-admin users when they perform SSO.

Note: Roles will be assigned to new users created by SSO. Existing Moodle users’ roles will not be affected.

• Scroll down to Role Mapping section.
• Select the Default Role and click on the Save changes button to save your configuration.

Step 4: Role Mapping

This feature allows you to assign and manage roles of the users when they perform SSO. Along with the default Moodle roles, this is compatible with any custom roles as well.

• Group/Role attribute will provide a mapping for the field name which contains role-related information sent by the IDP and will be used for Role Mapping.
• Scroll to the Role Mapping section and provide the mappings for the respective roles.
• Select the Default Role from the dropdown if the user role doesn't match with the assigned values.
• For example, If you have a user whose Group/Role attribute value is idp-teacher and you want to assign it to the teacher group then, just provide idp-teacher in the Teacher: field of Role mapping section.

Note: You can assign multiple values separated with semi-colon(;).

• Click on the Save changes button to save your configurations.

Step 5: SSO Settings

• In the plugin, you can add a login widget to enable SP-Initiated SSO on your site.
• Go to the Plugins >> Authentication >> Manage authentication.
• Click on the to enable the plugin visibility.
• Click on the ⬆ to set plugin preference.

Step 5: SSO settings

In the plugin you can add a login widget to enable SP-Initiated SSO on your site.

• Navigate to Site administrator >> Plugins >> Manage authentication.
• Click on the to enable the plugin visibility.
• Click on the ⬆ to set plugin preference.

• To enable auto-redirect from Moodle login page to WordPress site .
• Choose Yes value from the dropdown for Enable Auto-redirect to IDP from Moodle login page field.
• Note down Backdoor URL it will be useful when SSO fails.
• Click on the Save changes button to save your configuration.

You have successfully configured Moodle as SAML SP for achieving PingFederate SSO login into your Moodle Site.

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