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---title: Configuring Facebook as an Identity Provider---

Configuring Facebook as an Identity Provider

The EmpowerID SSO framework allows you to configure Facebook as an identity provider (IdP) for the EmpowerID Web application. EmpowerID integrates with Facebook using the OAuth protocol to allow your users to log in to EmpowerID using their Facebook accounts.

This topic describes how to configure an Identity Provider connection for Facebook and is divided into the following activities:

As a prerequisite to creating an IDP Connection for Facebook, you must have a Facebook account and register the EmpowerID web application for your organization in the Facebook Developers Center. This creates a set of values known by Facebook and the EmpowerID web application that allow the two to trust one another. These values include the AppID and the App Secret (these values are generated by Facebook), as well as the OAuth redirect URI. (This value is entered by you to tell Facebook where to post the assertion of a user's identity to the EmpowerID Assertion Consumer Service).

For specific directions on registering EmpowerID as an application in Facebook, see the information provided by Facebook at https://developers.facebook.com.

When registering EmpowerID in Facebook, use the following URL as the valid OAuth redirect under Facebook Login Settings. Be sure to replace "FQDN_OF_YOUR_EMPOWERID_SERVER"with the FQDN or fully resolvable DNS of the EmpowerID Web server in your environment.

https://FQDN_OF_YOUR_EMPOWERID_SERVER/EmpowerIDWebIdPForms/oauth/v2

Once the IDP Connection has been set up for Facebook, you can create a link similar to the one below to allow users to login to EmpowerID using Facebook. Be sure to replace "FQDN_OF_YOUR_EMPOWERID_SERVER" with the FQDN or fully resolvable DNS of the EmpowerID Web server in your environment and "Facebook" with the name of the IDP connection you create for Facebook in EmpowerID.

https://FQDN_OF_YOUR_EMPOWERID_SERVER/EmpowerIDWebIdPForms/Login/EmpowerIDWebSite/Facebook?returnUrl=%2FEmpowerIDWebIdPForms%2F

To add the App ID and App Secret

  1. From the Navigation Sidebar of the EmpowerID Web interface, navigate to the OAuth Application management page by expanding Admin > SSO Connections and clicking OAuth.
  2. From the OAuth Applications management page, click the OAuth Service Provider tab and then search for Facebook.
  3. From the OAuth Service Provider grid, click the Facebook link.
  4. In the External OAuth Provider Details page that appears, click the Edit button for the specific Facebook connection you want to edit. By default, EmpowerID includes one connection. However, you can add as many connections for Facebook as your organization needs.
  5. In the OAuth Connection pane that appears, type the APP ID Facebook generated for your application in the Consumer Key field and the App Secret in the Consumer Secret field.
  6. Prepend the value of the Callback Url with the FQDN of your EmpowerID Web server, using the https scheme. For example, the FQDN of the EmpowerID Web server in our environment is "sso.empowersso.com" so the full Callback Url for our site is "https://sso.empowersso.com/empoweridwebidpforms/oauth/v2".
  7. Click Save to close the OAuth Connection pane.
  8. Optionally, add any desired MFA points to the Facebook application by following the below steps.

To add MFA points to the Facebook application

From the External OAuth Providers page for Facebook, click the Provider Edit link at the top of the page. In the MFA Point Value field, type the number of MFA points you want to give to users logging in with Facebook. Click Save.

Next, add a login tile for Facebook to the desired IdP Domains. This allows your users to authenticate to EmpowerID with their Facebook credentials. If you have not set up an IdP Domain for your environment, you can do so by following the directions in the below drop-down.

  • To create an IdP Domain
    1. From the Navigation Sidebar, navigate to the SSO Components management page by expanding Admin > Applications and Directories > SSO Connections and clicking SSO Components.
    2. Click the IdP Domains tab and then click the Add IdP Domain (+) button.
    3. Type the fully qualified domain name in the Domain Name field and then click Save.

To add a login tile for Facebook

  1. From the Navigation Sidebar, navigate to the SSO Components management page by expanding Admin > Applications and Directories > SSO Connections and clicking SSO Components.
  2. In the IdP Domain Details page that appears, click the External OAuth Providers tab and check the box beside Facebook.
  3. Click Save.

To test the Facebook IDP connection

  1. From the Navigation Sidebar, navigate to the Workflows page by expanding IT Shop and clicking Workflows.
  2. From the Workflows page, recycle the EmpowerID App Pools by clicking Recycle EmpowerID App Pools.
  3. Log out of the EmpowerID Web interface and navigate your browser to the domain name you configured for the Facebook IdP connection.
  4. Click the Login using Facebook button.
  5. Log in to Facebook.
  6. Click Continue to allow EmpowerID to retrieve the information it needs to link your Facebook account to your EmpowerID identity (Person object).
  7. Back in the EmpowerID Web application, click Yes to indicate that you have an EmpowerID login.
  8. Type your EmpowerID Login or Email in the form and click Submit. The EmpowerID Person must have a valid email address as EmpowerID sends a one-time password to that address.
  9. Check your email for the one-time password.
  10. Back in the EmpowerID Web interface, type the one-time password into the Password field of the One-Time Password Validation form and click Submit.
Upon successful submission of your one-time password, EmpowerID logs the user in and joins the Facebook account to their EmpowerID Person account.
If you have set up the user's Password Manager policy to require the user accumulate a specific number of trust points beyond those granted by the identity provider, EmpowerID will direct the user through any Multi-factor methods you have enabled on the policy until they reach the needed point threshold to log in.
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