Tag: Attributes

Using SAML Assertion Attributes in ForgeRock OpenAM – Concluding Episode: Using SAML Assertion Attributes

You’ve reached the concluding episode of a four part video made on using SAML v2 Assertion attributes in an application protected by ForgeRock OpenAM. I don’t need to mention that this being the last one in the lot, it may seem pointless to read/view this entry independently without going through the entries below, preferably in the exact same order as is listed:

1. Protecting a J2EE Application with ForgeRock OpenAM
2. Configuring Federation in ForgeRock OpenAM
3. Configuring Transient Federation in ForgeRock OpenAM
4. Using SAMLv2 Assertion Attributes

We can safely say that the diagram below is the end state of our demonstration:

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So what we’ve in there is a client attempting to access the protected J2EE Application, which is intercepted by the OpenAM Policy Agent, who in turn redirects the request to an IDP initiated SSO URL, resulting in a Login page to the end user from IDP. The IDP would then validate the credentials supplied by the end user, and if found authentic, sends an assertion to the SP with the user attributes (like mail, telephonenumber) specified in the Federation Configuration. Because it uses Transient Federation, the user will not have a profile in SP, still the attributes in the Assertion is available in the user’s session to be used by the Agent to pass on to the application. It may have sounded complicated, but I’m confident that the concluding episode of a rather lengthy screen-cast can help you figure it all.

I want to take a moment to Thank you! to have spent time reading/viewing my web logs on ‘Using SAML Assertion Attributes’ and sincerely hope it was useful.

Enjoy!

Adding User Profile Attribute in ForgeRock OpenAM

In my earlier blog post titled Extending the ForgeRock OpenDJ Schema there was an embedded screen-cast that demonstrated how a new attribute could be added to the user profile in OpenDJ. We take one step further in this section to modify at Service in ForgeRock OpenAM to display that attribute in OpenAM Console. So if you’ve watched or if you know how to extend the OpenDJ schema to add a new user attribute, the following video log will tell you what you need to do on OpenAM to display it in the console.

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Extending the ForgeRock OpenDJ Schema

I had made a promise in my earlier post. This one is intended to fulfill it. One of the common requirements of any Directory Services solution is to extend the attributes that it supports. In the following video log that has a running time of just over a dozen minutes, you’ll see how to add a new attribute to the OpenDJ instance.

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