Configure Slack SAML SSO in a few simple steps using below setup guide. miniOrange Slack SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) helps you to log in to Slack Workspace and other applications using a single set of credentials. Upon enabling SSO login for Slack, a user can securely access Slack in one click without having to enter their username and password again.
Enable your users to automatically login to Slack
Have centralized and easy access control of Slack users
Connect easily with any external identity source like Azure AD, ADFS, Cognito, etc
Access additional IAM solutions like Multi-factor Authentication, Adaptive Authentication, User Provisioning along with security for Slack.
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Supported SSO Features
miniOrange-Slack SAML integration supports the following features:
SP Initiated SSO Login: Users can access their Slack account via a URL or bookmark. They will automatically be redirected to the miniOrange portal for login. Once they've signed on, they'll be automatically redirected and logged into Slack.
IdP Initiated SSO Login: Users need to login to the miniOrange first, and then click on the Slack icon on the applications dashboard to access Slack.(If you have set up any more Identity Sources, you will log in to that platform).
Connect with External Source of Users
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, AWS etc), Identity Providers (like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, AWS), and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
Video Setup Guide
Prerequisites
Only Workspace Owners and Organization Owners can configure SSO.
It’s only supported in Business+ and Enterprise Grid.
Follow the Step-by-Step Guide given below for Slack Single Sign-On (SSO)
Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Workspace settings.
Click the Authentication tab.
Next to SAML authentication, click Configure.
In the top right, toggle Test mode on.
Next to SAML SSO URL, enter your SAML 2.0 endpoint URL(HTTP) :https://yourdomain.slack.com/sso/saml/logout
Next to Identity provider issuer, enter your IDP entity ID.
Copy the entire x.509 certificate from your identity provider and paste it into the Public certificate field.
Enter the following to configure the app.
SAML 2.0 Endpoint (HTTP): Copy and paste the following from Step 1.
Next to Advanced options, click Expand. Choose how the SAML response from your IDP is signed. If you need an end-to-end encryption key, tick the box next to Sign AuthnRequest to show the certificate.
Under Settings, decide if members can edit their profile information (like their email or display name) after SSO is enabled. You can also choose whether SSO is required, partially required or optional.
Select Settings & administration from the menu, then click Organization settings.
From the left sidebar, click Security.
Click SSO settings.
Enter your SSO name.
Enter your SAML 2.0 endpoint URL (this came from setting up your connector earlier.) This is where authentication requests from Slack will be sent.
Enter your Identity provider issuer URL (also known as the entity ID).
The Service provider issuer URL is set to https://slack.com by default. This field should match what you've set in your IDP.
Copy the entire x.509 certificate from your identity provider.
Choose whether the SAML responses and assertions are signed. If you require an end-to-end encryption key for your IDP, tick the box next to Sign AuthnRequest to show the certificate. You can also select your preference for AuthnContextClassRef values.
Click Test configuration. Slack will let you know if the changes are successful or whether you need to make further changes.
When you're ready, click Turn on SSO or Add SSO.
For troubleshooting regarding any errors faced during Slack setup, you can check their troubleshooting section here.
3. Test SSO Configuration
Test SSO login to your Slack account with miniOrange IdP:
Using SP Initiated Login
Go to your Slack URL, here you will be either asked to enter the username or click on the SSO link which will redirect you to miniOrange IdP Sign On Page.
Enter your miniOrange login credential and click on Login. You will be automatically logged in to your Slack account.
Using IDP Initiated Login
Login to miniOrange IdP using your credentials.
On the Dashboard, click on Slack application which you have added, to verify SSO configuration.
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external sources, which can be Directories (like ADFS, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, OpenLDAP, Google, AWS Cognito etc), Identity Providers (like Okta, Shibboleth, Ping, OneLogin, KeyCloak), Databases (like MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL) and many more. You can configure your existing directory/user store or add users in miniOrange.
Here, fill the user details without the password and then click on the Create User button.
After successful user creation a notification message "An end user is added successfully" will be displayed at the top of the dashboard.
Click on Onboarding Status tab. Check the email, with the registered e-mail id and select action Send Activation Mail with Password Reset Link from Select Action dropdown list and then click on Apply button.
Now, Open your email id. Open the mail you get from miniOrange and then click on the link to set your account password.
On the next screen, enter the password and confirm password and then click on the Single Sign-On (SSO) reset password button.
Now, you can log in into miniOrange account by entering your credentials.
2. Bulk Upload Users in miniOrange via Uploading CSV File.
Navigate to Users >> User List. Click on Add User button.
In Bulk User Registration Download sample csv format from our console and edit this csv file according to the instructions.
To bulk upload users, choose the file make sure it is in comma separated .csv file format then click on Upload.
After uploading the csv file successfully, you will see a success message with a link.
Click on that link you will see list of users to send activation mail. Select users to send activation mail and click on Send Activation Mail. An activation mail will be sent to the selected users.
Click on External Directories >> Add Directory in the left menu of the dashboard.
Select Directory type as AD/LDAP.
STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION IN MINIORANGE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in miniOrange. If active directory is behind a firewall, you will need to open the firewall to allow incoming requests to your AD.
STORE LDAP CONFIGURATION ON PREMISE: Choose this option if you want to keep your configuration in your premise and only allow access to AD inside premises. You will have to download and install miniOrange gateway in your premise.
Enter LDAP Display Name and LDAP Identifier name.
Select Directory Type as Active Directory.
Enter the LDAP Server URL or IP Address against LDAP Server URL field.
Click on Test Connection button to verify if you have made a successful connection with your LDAP server.
In Active Directory, go to the properties of user containers/OU's and search for Distinguished Name attribute.
Enter the valid Bind account Password.
Click on Test Bind Account Credentials button to verify your LDAP Bind credentials for LDAP connection.
Search Base is the location in the directory where the search for a user begins. You will get this from the same place you got your Distinguished name.
Select a suitable Search filter from the drop-down menu. If you use User in Single Group Filter or User in Multiple Group Filter, replace the <group-dn> in the search filter with the distinguished name of the group in which your users are present. To use custom Search Filter select "Write your Custom Filter" option and customize it accordingly.
You can also configure following options while setting up AD. Enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP. Click on the Save button to add user store.
Here's the list of the attributes and what it does when we enable it. You can enable/disable accordingly.
Attribute
Description
Activate LDAP
All user authentications will be done with LDAP credentials if you Activate it
Sync users in miniOrange
Users will be created in miniOrange after authentication with LDAP
Fallback Authentication
If LDAP credentials fail then user will be authenticated through miniOrange
Allow users to change password
This allows your users to change their password. It updates the new credentials in your LDAP server
Enable administrator login
On enabling this, your miniOrange Administrator login authenticates using your LDAP server
Show IdP to users
If you enable this option, this IdP will be visible to users
Send Configured Attributes
If you enable this option, then only the attributes configured below will be sent in attributes at the time of login
Click on Save. After this, it will show you the list of User stores. Click on Test Connection to check whether you have enter valid details. For that, it will ask for username and password.
On Successful connection with LDAP Server, a success message is shown.
Click on Test Attribute Mapping.
Enter a valid Username. Then, click on Test. Mapped Attributes corresponding to the user are fetched.
After successful Attribute Mapping Configuration, go back to the ldap configuration and enable Activate LDAP in order to authenticate users from AD/LDAP.
Go to Settings >> Product Settings in the Customer Admin Account.
Enable the "Enable User Auto Registration" option and click Save.
(Optional) To send a welcome email to all the end users that will be imported, enable the "Enable sending Welcome Emails after user registration" option and click Save.
From the Left-Side menu of the dashboard select Provisioning.
In Setup Provisioning tab select Active Directory in the Select Application drop-down.
Toggle the Import Users tab, click on Save button.
On the same section, switch to Import Users section.
Select Active Directory from the dropdown and click on the Import Users tab, to import all the users from Active Directory to miniOrange.
You can view all the Users you have imports by selecting Users >> User List from Left Panel.
All the imported users will be auto registered.
These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.
miniOrange integrates with various external user sources such as directories, identity providers, and etc.
You can use adaptive authentication with Slack Single Sign-On (SSO) to improve the security and functionality of Single Sign-On. You can allow a IP Address in certain range for SSO or you can deny it based your requirements and you can also challenge the user to verify his authenticity. Adaptive authentication manages the user authentication bases on different factors such as Device ID, Location, Time of Access, IP Address and many more.
You can configure Adaptive Authentication with IP Blocking in following way:
Login to Self Service Console >> Adaptive Authentication.
Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.
Select your Action for behavior Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behavior Change Section.
Action for behavior Change Options :
Attribute
Description
Allow
Allow user to authenticate and use services if Adaptive authentication condition is true.
Challenge
Challenge users with one of the three methods mentioned below for verifying user authenticity.
Deny
Deny user authentications and access to services if Adaptive authentication condition is true.
Challenge Type Options :
Attribute
Description
User second Factor
The User needs to authenticate using the second factor he has opted or assigned for such as
OTP over SMS
PUSH Notification
OTP over Email
And 12 more methods.
KBA (Knowledge-based authentication)
The System will ask user for 2 of 3 questions he has configured in his Self Service Console. Only after right answer to both questions user is allowed to proceed further.
OTP over Alternate Email
User will receive a OTP on the alternate email he has configured threw Self Service Console. Once user provides the correct OTP he is allowed to proceed further.
Now Enable Enable IP Restriction option from the IP RESTRICTION CONFIGURATION section to configure custom IP range.
Specify the IP Address range for which you want above setting to reflect. You can add more than one IP Address ranges by clicking on following button +.
Scroll to the end and click on save.
B. Adaptive Authentication with Limiting number of devices.
Using Adaptive Authentication you can also restrict the number of devices the end user can access the Services on. You can allow end users to access services on a fixed no. of devices. The end users will be able to access services provided by us on this fixed no. of devices.
You can configure Adaptive Authentication with Device Restriction in following way
Login to Self Service Console >> Adaptive Authentication.
Add a Policy Name for your Adaptive Authentication Policy.
Select your Action for behavior Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behavior Change Section.
Scroll down to Device Configuration section and enable Allow User to Register Device option to allow users to register their devices.
Enter the Number of Devices which are allowed to register in field next to Number of Device Registrations Allowed
Choose Action if number of devices exceeded (This will override your setting for Action for behavior Change.)
Challenge: The user needs to verify himself using any of the three methods mentioned in table in step 5.1
Deny : Deny users access to the system
Enable option Send email alerts to Users if number of Device registrations exceeded allowed count if you want to alert the user about no of devices exceeding the limit. Save the configuration.
C. Add Adaptive Authentication policy to Slack.
Login to Self Service Console >> Policies.
Click on Edit option for predefined app policy.
Set your application name in the Application and select password as Login Method.
Enable Adaptive Authentication on Policy page and select the required restriction method as an option.
From Select Login Policy dropdown select the policy we created in last step and click on save.
D.Notification and Alert Message.
This section handles the notifications and alerts related to Adaptive Authentication.It provides the following options :
Get email alerts if users login from unknown devices or locations : Admin need to enable this option to enable receiving alerts for different alert options.
Option
Description
Challenge Completed and Device Registered
Enabling this option allows you to send an email alert when an end-user completes a challenge and registers a device.
Challenge Completed but Device Not Registered
Enabling this option allows you to send an email alert when an end-user completes a challenge but do not registers the device.
Challenge Failed
Enabling this option allows you to send an email alert when an end-user fails to complete the challenge.
Next subsection is Send email alerts which allows us to enable or disable alerts for admin and end-users. To enable alerts for admins, you can enable the “Administrators” switch button.
In case you want multiple admins accounts to receive alerts then you can enable the option for admin and then enter the admin emails separated by a ‘,’ in the input field next to Administrators email to receive alerts label. To enable alerts for the end-users, you can enable the “End Users” switch button.
In case you want to customize the deny message that end user receive in case his authentication denied due to adaptive policy, you can do this by entering the message inside “Deny message for Adaptive Authentication” text box.
How to add a trusted Device
When End-user log in to the self service console after the policy for device restriction is on, he is provided the option to add the current device as a trusted device.
Troubleshooting
How to identify errors in SAML assertions sent by your IDP?
Use the SAML Assertion Validator to troubleshoot single sign-on (SSO) login problems and identify errors in SAML assertions sent by your identity provider. Click on this link know more about the error identification in SAML Assertions.
For Chrome / Edge or Chromium-based browsers: Install the SAML tracer extension from Chrome Webstore.
Steps to Capture logs:
Make sure the SAML Tracer window is opened before you start the SSO flow. (You can open it by clicking the SAML Tracer icon in your extensions list in the browser toolbar.)
Run the SSO flow to reproduce the issue. You will see SAML Tracer getting populated with all the URLs.
Hit Pause on SAML Tracer, once the issue is reproduced to avoid extra logs.
You will have something similar to the below pic in the SAML tracer.
Steps to export logs:
To export logs, click the export option on the top of the SAML Tracer. (Refer to screenshot below).
You will be prompted with the Export SAML trace preferences window, select the None field, and then click on the Export option. (This option will allow keeping values in the original state which is required to further investigate the issue.)
Click Export. This will download a JSON file on your system.
Send the log file to the developer you are in touch with or at idpsupport@xecurify.com. Also, please attach an error screenshot. This would help us debug the issue.
If you are still not able to get the logs, feel free to let us know.
