Working with Login Sources
Login Sources define where the user comes from. For example, if the user authenticates with a username and password stored in OPS-COM then OPSCOM is the source. They could also come from SAML, LDAP etc.
You can add login sources in the Admin Options under Users.
By default, you will have the OPSCOM login source. You can see that this will give users the option of entering their username and password.
If we were to disable this option then we would only be left with our SAML login source. 
Adding Login Sources
To add login sources we click the Add Login Source button at the top right corner of the page.
Any required fields will be displayed in red letting you know they must be completed before you can save.
Important
The fields have multiple states which are reflected by the color they are highlighted with.
- Red fields are required to click save.
- Yellow fields are required to work but still allow empty or invalid values to be saved.
- Yellow fields can also indicate that a change has been made.
The Code field is what the user profile will match against when adding users to the new login source. However, only one login source code can be activated at a time.
Service Provider Fields
The Unique Identifier is the ID of the external SAML system that comes from the provider.
The Entity ID for Service Provider is the name that our system communicates with the SAML system for example. It also becomes part of the URL for the user portal
The x509 certificate can be generated and added to the service provider.
Identity Provider Fields
These fields come from the system you are working with such as SAML when communicating with ops-com. For example, SAML should display its metadata under Federation → Show Metadata.
Once the settings have been completed and saved you will have access to the MetaData, Synchronization and Translations tab.
Metadata
The Metadata tab provides the XML that would be provided to the service provider
Sample XML File
The following is an example of a response from an external system to OPS-COM. In this case, it is a SimpleSAMLPhp service set up as the identity provider. At the bottom are several attributes within an saml:AttributeStatement tag. These are required for our system to match to a user within our system. The one field that matters in this attribute section is what is being used as the permanently unique identifier for a user. In this case it is "uid". Since "uid" is being sent back, then the setup for Identity Provider Fields should have "uid" as the Unique ID Field. If the unique ID is something else such as SAMaccountName, then that should be used for UniqueID.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<samlp:Response xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol" xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion" ID="_aa1963115aa6490e728c7376f4c8849813bbb...">
...
<saml:Assertion xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" ID="_9efd79bf6425983ee9176f3d33a99d1a9176180...">
...
<saml:Subject>
<saml:NameID SPNameQualifier="MinionOpsComStaff" Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient">_7a426e0be71f14c1f349db00d7d543b6f7dcb52baa</saml:NameID>
<saml:SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">
<saml:SubjectConfirmationData NotOnOrAfter="2021-08-24T16:00:41Z" Recipient="https://minion-3.dev.parkadmin.com/auth/saml2/MinionOpsComStaff/acs" InResponseTo="ONELOGIN_bb8a09203c888cf59af4c621a71cfa8f7559c016"/>
</saml:SubjectConfirmation>
</saml:Subject>
<saml:Conditions NotBefore="2021-08-24T15:55:11Z" NotOnOrAfter="2021-08-24T16:00:41Z">
<saml:AudienceRestriction>
<saml:Audience>MinionOpsComStaff</saml:Audience>
</saml:AudienceRestriction>
</saml:Conditions>
<saml:AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="2021-08-24T15:34:46Z" SessionNotOnOrAfter="2021-08-24T23:34:46Z" SessionIndex="_a7a68666092117d24aab8adecf1b0830622855b85...">
<saml:AuthnContext>
<saml:AuthnContextClassRef>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport</saml:AuthnContextClassRef>
</saml:AuthnContext>
</saml:AuthnStatement>
<saml:AttributeStatement>
<saml:Attribute Name="uid" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
<saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">6ddf4027-3397-4e45-8628-0189f60fe91e</saml:AttributeValue>
</saml:Attribute>
<saml:Attribute Name="full name" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
<saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">Sarah Knowles</saml:AttributeValue>
</saml:Attribute>
<saml:Attribute Name="email" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">
<saml:AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string">sknowles@tomahawk.ca</saml:AttributeValue>
</saml:Attribute>
</saml:AttributeStatement>
</saml:Assertion>
</samlp:Response>
Translations
Translations can be used to change the text displayed on your login button from the user side. We can create as many different translations as we have available on our system. For this example, we have English and French.
Synchronization
The synchronization tab allows you to create users in OPS-COM when they login from SAML that do not already exist by mapping your user attributes to our system. This also lets you update existing users information in the system. In this example, any field that is mapped and has a value from your SSO side should get updated to the value from SAML.
To begin, ensure that you enable Auto Create/Update User. Keep in mind that these are sample values from our test system and your SAML system may differ.
After you have supplied the information in each field you can click Save Changes and your users will begin to be created/updated. If any of the fields supplied by you are incorrect then the information will be blank when the user logs in or it will stay the same if the user already existed.
Managing Login Sources
We can manage our login sources by either editing or deleting them using the two buttons to the right of each source.
Archiving a login source means that it will no longer display on the user side and any users associated with this source will be removed from logging in this way.