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:
- To add the Facebook AppID and AppSecret keys to the Facebook OAuth Connection
- Adding MFA Points to the Facebook OAuth Connection
- Adding a Login Tile for Facebook
- Testing the Facebook Connection
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/WebIdPForms/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/WebIdPForms/Login/EmpowerIDWebSite/Facebook?returnUrl=%2FEmpowerIDWebIdPForms%2F
To add the App ID and App Secret
- From the Navigation Sidebar of the EmpowerID Web interface, expand Admin > SSO Connections and click OAuth.
- From the OAuth Applications management page, click the OAuth Service Provider tab and then search for Facebook.
- From the OAuth Service Provider grid, click the Facebook link.
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.
Edit links have the pencil icon.
- 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.
- 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/webidpforms/oauth/v2".
- Click Save to close the OAuth Connection pane.
- 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 add a login tile for Facebook
- From the Navigation Sidebar, expand Admin > Applications and Directories > SSO Connections and click SSO Components.
- In the IdP Domain Details page that appears, click the External OAuth Providers tab and check the box beside Facebook.
Click Save.
To give users the ability to log in using their EmpowerID credentials, be sure to select EmpowerID from the SAML Identity Providers tab of the IdP Domain Details page.
