Configuring Local and Outbound Authentication for a Service Provider

The responsibility of the local authenticators is to authenticate the user with locally available credentials. This can be either username/password or even IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) or FIDO (Fast IDentity Online). Local authenticators are decoupled from the Inbound Authenticators. Once the initial request is handed over to the authentication framework from an inbound authenticator, the authentication framework talks to the service provider configuration component to find the set of local authenticators registered with the service provider corresponding to the current authentication request.

Once the local authentication is successfully completed, the local authenticator will notify the framework. The framework will now decide no more authentication is needed and hand over the control to the corresponding response builder of the inbound authenticator. See Architecture for more information on this.

You can configure the following for local and outbound authentication.

1. Expand Local & Outbound Authentication Configuration.
   
   
   • Assert identity using mapped local subject identifier : This option will use the local subject identifier when asserting the identity.
   • Always send back the authenticated list of identity providers : This option will send back the list of Identity Providers that the current user is authenticated by.
   • Use tenant domain in local subject identifier : This option will append the tenant domain to the local subject identifier.
   • Use user store domain in local subject identifier : This option will append the user store domain that the user resides in the local subject identifier.
2. Select the Authentication Type you require from the available options. This is a required field.
   
   • If you choose Local Authentication, you need to select the local authentication option from the dropdown list.
   • If you choose Federated Authentication, you need to select the identity provider from the dropdown list.
   • If you choose Advanced Configurations, you can configure additional authentication steps and additional authentication options.
     
     1. Click Add Authentication Step. Clicking this again will enable you to create another authentication step.
     2. Select whether to Use subject identifier from this step, Use attributes from this step or both. In the case of multiple steps, you can have only one step to use subject identifier from this step and one to use attributes from this step.
     3. Click the plus button to add a Local Authenticator. You can choose the type of authenticator using the dropdown. Clicking the plus button again will enable you to add a second local authenticator. Basic authentication allows you to authenticate users from the enterprise user store.
     4. Click the plus button to add a Federated Authenticator. You can choose the type of authenticator using the dropdown. Clicking the plus button again will enable you to add a second federated authenticator.
     5. Click the Update button. This will return you to the previous screen with your newly configured authentication steps.
3. Add a local authenticator under Request Path Authentication Configuration by clicking the Add button. Clicking the Add button again enables you to add another local authenticator. The two types of local authenticators available are as follows.
   • OAuthRequestPathAuthenticator
   • BasicAuthRequestPathAuthenticator

Look through the following for more details on the various authentication types.