keycloak-scim/server_admin/topics/identity-broker/saml.adoc

=== SAML v2.0 Identity Providers

{project_name} can broker identity providers based on the SAML v2.0 protocol.

To begin configuring an SAML v2.0 provider, go to the `Identity Providers` left menu item
and select `SAML v2.0` from the `Add provider` drop down list.  This will bring you to the `Add identity provider` page.

.Add Identity Provider
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The initial configuration options on this page are described in <<_general-idp-config, General IDP Configuration>>.
You must define the SAML configuration options as well.  They basically describe the SAML IDP you are communicating with.

.SAML Config
|===
|Configuration|Description

|Single Sign-On Service URL
|This is a required field and specifies the SAML endpoint to start the authentication process.  If your SAML IDP publishes an IDP entity descriptor, the value of
 this field will be specified there.

|Single Logout Service URL
|This is an optional field that specifies the SAML logout endpoint. If your SAML IDP publishes an IDP entity descriptor, the value of
 this field will be specified there.
 
|Backchannel Logout
|Enable if your SAML IDP supports backchannel logout.

|NameID Policy Format
|Specifies the URI reference corresponding to a name identifier format. Defaults to `urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent`.

|HTTP-POST Binding Response
|When this realm responds to any SAML requests sent by the external IDP, which SAML binding should be used?  If set to `off`, then the Redirect Binding will be used.

|HTTP-POST Binding for AuthnRequest
|When this realm requests authentication from the external SAML IDP, which SAML binding should be used?  If set to `off`, then the Redirect Binding will be used.

|Want AuthnRequests Signed
|If true, it will use the realm's keypair to sign requests sent to the external SAML IDP.

|Signature Algorithm
|If `Want AuthnRequests Signed` is on, then you can also pick the signature algorithm to use.

|SAML Signature Key Name
|Signed SAML documents sent via POST binding contain identification of signing key in `KeyName`
 element. This by default contains {project_name} key ID. However various external SAML IDPs might
 expect a different key name or no key name at all. This switch controls whether `KeyName`
 contains key ID (option `KEY_ID`), subject from certificate corresponding to the realm key
 (option `CERT_SUBJECT` - expected for instance by Microsoft Active Directory Federation
 Services), or that the key name hint is completely omitted from the SAML message (option `NONE`).

|Force Authentication
|Indicates that the user will be forced to enter their credentials at the external IDP even if they are already logged in.

|Validate Signature
|Whether or not the realm should expect that SAML requests and responses from the external IDP to be digitally signed.  It is highly recommended you turn this on!

|Validating X509 Certificate
|The public certificate that will be used to validate the signatures of SAML requests and responses from the external IDP.
|===


You can also import all this configuration data by providing a URL or file that points to the SAML IDP entity descriptor of the external IDP.
If you are connecting to a {project_name} external IDP, you can import the IDP settings from the URL `<root>/auth/realms/{realm-name}/protocol/saml/descriptor`.
This link is an XML document describing metadata about the IDP.


You can also import all this configuration data by providing a URL or XML file that points to the entity descriptor of the external SAML IDP you want to connect to.

[[_identity_broker_saml_sp_descriptor]]
==== SP Descriptor

Once you create a SAML provider, there is an `EXPORT` button that appears when viewing that provider.
Clicking this button will export a SAML SP entity descriptor which you can use to import into the external SP.

This metadata is also available publicly by going to the URL.

[source]
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http[s]://{host:port}/auth/realms/{realm-name}/broker/{broker-alias}/endpoint/descriptor
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