Configuring Facebook

Facebook can be used as a federated authenticator in the Identity Server. Do the following to configure the Identity Server to authenticate users using their Facebook credentials. See Login to the Identity Server using Facebook Credentials for more information on how this works.

To navigate to the federated authenticators configuration section, do the following.

1. Sign in. Enter your username and password to log on to the Management Console. 
2. Navigate to the Main menu to access the Identity menu. Click Add under Identity Providers.
   For more information, see Configuring an Identity Provider.  

3. Fill in the details in the Basic Information section. 

You can configure the following federated authenticators by expanding the Federated Authenticators section followed by the required subsections.

1. Expand the Facebook Configuration form.
   

2. Fill in the following fields where relevant.

   Field	Description	Sample value
   Enable Facebook Authentication	Selecting this option enables Facebook to be used as an authenticator for users provisioned to the Identity Server.	Selected
   Default	Selecting the Default checkbox signifies that the Facebook credentials are the main/default form of authentication. This removes the selection made for any other Default checkboxes for other authenticators.	Selected
   Client Id	This is the username from the Facebook app. These are obtained from the Facebook App you create using your Facebook Developer account. See How To: Login to the Identity Server using Facebook Credentials for more information on how to do this.	1421263438188909
   Client Secret	This is the password from the Facebook app. Click the Show button to view the value you enter.	12ffb4dfb2fed67a00846b42126991f8
   Scope	You can restrict the claims sent to the Identity Server. This means you can restrict the claims by specifying them in the scope.	email
   User Information Fields	You can send a comma separated list of claims that you need to receive.	id,email,name