Service Provider

Definition

The Service Providers are standard application servers that relays on Identity Providers to let the users log in.

Join federation

To join the federation, the service provider management team must deliver its "Metadata". The service provider Metadata describes how the service providers behaves:

• Which security algorithms does it support.
• The public portion of its signing and encrypting keys.
• The SAML protocols does it support.
• The URL of each SAML protocol endpoint.
• Contact information.

Screen overview

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Standard attributes

The standard attributes depends on the Service provider type.  Currently there are three types:

SAML

SAML API client

OpenID Connect

Implicit flow

• The Service Provider sends the user to the IdP.
• The IdP authenticates the user.
• The user returns control to the Service Provider along an OpenID token and an OAuth token.

Client credentials flow

• The Service Provider sends the user to the IdP.
• The IdP authenticates the user.
• The user returns control to the Service Provider along an authorization code.
• The Service Provider gets the OpenID token and OAuth token from the IdP by presenting the authorization code, and its client secret. This request is using a direct connection between them.

Password authentication flow

• The Service Provider asks for a user name and password.
• The Service Provider gets the OpenID token and OAuth token from the IdP by presenting the user's name and password, and optionally its client secret. This request is using a direct connection between them.