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Single sign-on (SSO) allows users, who are authenticated against one application, gain access to multiple other related applications as well without having to repeatedly authenticate themselves. It also allows the web applications gain access to a set of back-end services with the logged-in user's access rights, and the back-end services can authorize the user based on different claims like user role.

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Configuring WSO2 Identity Server as a SAML 2.0 SSO Identity Provider

  1. Download and set up WSO2 Identity Server (version 4.6.0 is used here). See https://docs.wso2.org/display/IS460/Getting+Started in the IS documentation for installation instructions. 
  2. Start the IS server and log in to its Management Console UI.  
  3. Select the SAML SSO menu under the Main menu in the left pane.

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  4. The SAML SSO window opens. Add the following configurations under section Register New Service Provider to register the API Manager applications as SSO service providers. Use the exact same values, which were used to configure the API Manager web applications.

    To register API Publisher as an SSO service provider:
      • Issuer : API_PUBLISHER
      • Assertion Consumer URL : https://localhost:9443/publisher/jagg/jaggery_acs.jag. Change the IP and port accordingly. This is the url for the acs page in your running publisher app.
      • Select the options Use fully qualified username in the SAML Response, Enable Response Signing, Enable Assertion Signing and Enable Single Logout.

      • Click Register once done.

    To register API Store as an SSO service provider:

      • Issuer : API_STORE
      • Assertion Consumer URL : https://localhost:9443/store/jagg/jaggery_acs.jag. Change the IP and port accordingly. This is the url for the acs page in your running store app.
      • Select the options Use fully qualified username in the SAML Response, Enable Response Signing, Enable Assertion Signing and Enable Single Logout.

      • Click Register once done.

    For example:

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