We have successfully integrated our web application to utilize Azure AD for authentication using a SAML2 component called SAML SSO from ComponentPro, but our application also provides for a user to sometimes submit their Username and Password (it's configurable) in order to check in a document or approve a revision. SAML has no provision for passing a username and password back to the IdP for "re-verification," so that's not an option.
What we'd like to do in this case is to integrate the Microsoft Authenticator tool so that when using Azure AD as the Authentication source, instead of prompting the user for their username and password, we prompt them for their Authenticator code that corresponds to their Business-created Azure Active Directory Account.
We've created the Microsoft Application, have the Application ID and the Application Secret Password, but searching everywhere, I can't find anything to finish this seemingly simple task.
Your assistance will be greatly appreciated!
All The Best,
John
Have a look at this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/application-proxy-connectors
MFA (including the Authenticator app) and OTP-only authentication are available with Azure AD (Now even with the Azure AD free plan) and the link offers some more information on how to integrate with your application.
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Good afternoon experts,
I have a Django web application (it is not internet-facing) and so far I used the django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend to authenticate the users.
However I want to integrate this webapp to an existing SSO solution (like Azure AD) so I thought python3-saml would be a good library to be used (more specifically I use python3-saml-django but it is just a wrapper around python3-saml).
Probably I am missing some fundamental point as I don't really understand how this should work.
When I used ModelBackend then I had a login form where the user could type their username+password which was checked against Django database and the authentication was completed. Should the same work with SSO too? i.e. the login form appears, the user will type their credentials but they will be checked in Azure AD instead of Django auth tables? Or the custom login form of that specific auth solution (in this case Azure AD -> Microsoft login form) should be displayed...?
The LOGIN_URL setting is configured in my Django app so if no user is logged in then automatically my login form appears.
Also I set the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS setting and it points only to django_saml.backends.SamlUserBAckend.
I configured AZure AD (registered the app and added a user, I tested it in Azure AD console) hopefully correctly. I also populated python3-saml's settings.json with login/logout URL, etc.
Whenever I try to log in with the Azure AD user I got an auth error (the user and password did).
I am just wondering if somebody could shed some light please how this should work? Can I debug the SAML requests / responses?
auth is token based in azure ad and it will redirect the user to the microsoft login. You will receive an auth token which then you can use to for authorization and providing secure pages.
First register your app in azure portal in azure active directory and also create a user flow.
Then download MSAL for python (using pip) which is used for auth using azure ad for python.
The basic architecture is that when the user tries to login the Microsoft login page will be shown, after signing in your app will receive a token which then you should use to show the logged in pages.
References:
quickstart for auth in python
userflow
MSAL Library
My company has developed a web-based application for internal and external use. The application is developed by angular + asp.net WebApi and authorised by OAuth. Users have to use the username and password given by us to login. The application works well. Recently, clients made a new request to login our system through Azure AD SSO. They want us to integrate their Azure AD.
Requirements:
On login page, there should be a new option for users to login our system by connecting to their Azure AD.
Alternatively, if their employees are connected to their system and then visit to our website, they will be automatically logged in our website without entering username and password.
I have no knownledge about Azure AD SSO and still get confused even I did some search on google. Can someone give me some advice or hints?
Using Msal with Angular you can implement the Azure AD SSO login. There are multiple code samples and microsoft documents available to achieve your requirement.
Please go through the documentation and code Sample.
In the Angular sample there is a function as mentioned below which verifies the user credentials if the user is already logged in or not.
checkoutAccount() {
this.loggedIn = !!this.authService.getAccount();
}
I am not sure if I am asking this question correctly or not, but if a user is authenticated through MS Azure, can Azure send the identity of the user to another system through HTTP header variable?
If so, what if the HTTP server on the other system is Apache based and not IIS. Is it still possible? If yes, how is it done?
Thanks
The closest option available in the Azure AD offerings is Header based SSO.
Header-based single sign-on works for applications that use HTTP
headers for authentication. This sign-on method uses a third-party
authentication service called PingAccess. A user only needs to
authenticate to Azure AD.
If you could expand your question a bit more, maybe we can help with a better answer
So the flow as I understand is like follows..
Salesforce redirects the user to Azure AD
Azure AD authenticates the user (uses SAML) and sends the SAML token back to salesForce
The user who signed in to SalesForce now redirects to a Siebel App?
The expectation is that the user would not have to authenticate again for Siebel?
The quick answer is that Azure AD will authenticate the user using header-based, SAML or OpenID only if the Siebel app is registered with Azure AD.
Without registration, Azure AD has no knowledge about this app (Siebel) and wont deal with it.
During registration, Siebel developers can choose if they want to use SAML, header based or OpenId for authentication and Azure AD will automatically Single sign-on an already signed in user (like in this example the user has already signed-in to SalesForce) to Siebel and wont prompt the user for credentials.
I'm working on integrating Azure AD authentication with various apps on different platforms.
Is there a way to get an authentication token id from a user logging in through a web api like 'azureadlogin.com/login?user=ted&password=passwordhash'
There seems to be ways of doing it through node or javascript or C# apps but I'd really like to just have a simple web request way of doing it as there are many different apps on different platforms that need to make use of this feature.
No.
There is a way to authenticate with username + password by doing a POST request and using Resource Owner Password Credentials flow, but I don't recommend it.
ROPC will not work if:
User's password has expired
User is MS account/federated from on-prem AD
User has multi-factor authentication enabled
You have a wide selection of authentication flows which work in all these scenarios too, and don't involve the user giving their password to you.
For example:
Authorization code flow
Implicit grant flow
Device authentication flow
You can use username/password authentication. But if your app has user interface, so it could popup the regular Azure AD login page, I would recommend not to use it. A major reason for using Azure AD (or other identity providers) is that the user doesn't want your app to know his password.
There's a sample which does what you want. The code in question is here.
The sample uses .NET and the ADAL.net library, but you can do similar stuff on other platforms.
I am creating a new Azure AD B2C authenticated site to replace an older Forms Authenticated one. In the new site, I am asking the user to initially enter their email address so I can check if they exist in Azure B2C and send them to the appropriate sign-in page and if not send them to the older Forms Authenticated site.
The issue is I have when following Microsoft's tutorials, is that they show user management but they all require you to have logged in with your Azure account first and obviously this is not possible given the system I am trying to build. Is what I am doing even possible?
Thanks in advance!
MS tutorials: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/active-directory-code-samples/
Sadly, it seems like this is not possible within the Azure B2C Preview.
From the limitations section (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2c-limitations/) there is this paragraph which describes what I am trying to do:
Daemons / Server Side Applications
Applications that contain long running processes or that operate without the presence of a user also need a way to access secured resources, such as Web APIs. These applications can authenticate and get tokens using the application's identity (rather than a consumer's delegated identity) using the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow. This flow is not yet available in Azure AD B2C preview - which is to say that applications can only get tokens after an interactive consumer sign-in flow has occurred.
So it seems like this is currently not possible. Hopefully it'll work once it comes out of preview.
Be careful with this, check if your site is not vulnerable to username enumeration:
http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/05/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know.html
With the old users going to forms based authentication, you could call the Graph API to create the users in the B2C directory:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2c-devquickstarts-graph-dotnet/
Then the next time they can login through B2C