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Set up MockSAML as an Identity Provider in ZITADEL

apps/docs/content/guides/integrate/identity-providers/mocksaml.mdx

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import GeneralConfigDescription from './_general_config_description.mdx'; import Intro from './_intro.mdx'; import CustomLoginPolicy from './_custom_login_policy.mdx'; import IDPsOverview from './_idps_overview.mdx'; import Activate from './_activate.mdx'; import TestSetup from './_test_setup.mdx'; import PrefillAction from './_prefill_action.mdx';

<Intro components={props.components} provider="MockSAML"/> <Callout type="warn"> MockSAML is not intended for any production environment, only for test purposes </Callout>

MockSAML

Download metadata

You can either download the metadata under https://mocksaml.com/api/saml/metadata?download=true or skip this step and fill in the URL when creating the SAML Provider in ZITADEL.

ZITADEL settings

Go to the IdP providers overview

<IDPsOverview components={props.components} templates="SAML"/>

Create a new SAML ServiceProvider

The SAML provider template has everything you need preconfigured. Add the metadata.xml or the URL to the metadata which are accessible by you ZITADEL instance. All the necessary settings are contained in the metadata which has to be exchanged by the ServiceProvider and the IdentityProvider.

<GeneralConfigDescription components={props.components} provider_account="SAML account" />

Download metadata

Normally, you would need to download the ServiceProvider metadata from ZITADEL to upload to the IdentityProvider. They are available under https://${CUSTOMDOMAIN}/idps/\{ID of the provider in ZITADEL}/saml/metadata, but this step can be skipped due to the fact that MockSAML is only for testing purposes.

Activate IdP

<Activate components={props.components} />

Ensure your Login Policy allows External IDPs

<CustomLoginPolicy components={props.components} />

Configure an action to autofill user data

Required for Login V2

The creation of users in ZITADEL will fail if the required fields to create a user are not set.

Actions V2 can be used to map the SAML attributes returned by the IDP to the required fields in ZITADEL. See the Actions V2 Response Manipulation guide for more information on setting up a Target and an Execution. In short,

  • Create an Actions V2 Target of type REST Call
  • Create an Execution of type Response on the method /zitadel.user.v2.UserService/RetrieveIdentityProviderIntent

The following minimal example modifies the response of /zitadel.user.v2.UserService/RetrieveIdentityProviderIntent to set the required fields for user creation. This example is specific to MockSAML, please adjust the attributes according to your IDP.

go
package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"io"
	"log"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/muhlemmer/gu"
	"github.com/zitadel/zitadel-go/v3/pkg/client/zitadel/user/v2"
	"google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/protojson"
)

type contextResponse struct {
	Request  *retrieveIdentityProviderIntentRequestWrapper  `json:"request"`
	Response *retrieveIdentityProviderIntentResponseWrapper `json:"response"`
}

// RetrieveIdentityProviderIntentRequestWrapper necessary to marshal and unmarshal the JSON into the proto message correctly
type retrieveIdentityProviderIntentRequestWrapper struct {
	user.RetrieveIdentityProviderIntentRequest
}

func (r *retrieveIdentityProviderIntentRequestWrapper) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	data, err := protojson.Marshal(r)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return data, nil
}

func (r *retrieveIdentityProviderIntentRequestWrapper) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
	return protojson.Unmarshal(data, r)
}

// RetrieveIdentityProviderIntentResponseWrapper necessary to marshal and unmarshal the JSON into the proto message correctly
type retrieveIdentityProviderIntentResponseWrapper struct {
	user.RetrieveIdentityProviderIntentResponse
}

func (r *retrieveIdentityProviderIntentResponseWrapper) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	data, err := protojson.Marshal(r)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return data, nil
}

func (r *retrieveIdentityProviderIntentResponseWrapper) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
	return protojson.Unmarshal(data, r)
}

// call HandleFunc to read the response body, manipulate the content and return the response
func call(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	// read the body content
	sentBody, err := io.ReadAll(req.Body)
	if err != nil {
		// if there was an error while reading the body return an error
		http.Error(w, "error", http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}
	defer req.Body.Close()

	// read the response into the expected structure
	request := new(contextResponse)
	if err := json.Unmarshal(sentBody, request); err != nil {
		http.Error(w, "error", http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}

	// build the response from the received response
	resp := request.Response
	// manipulate the received response to send back as response
	if err = manipulateResponse(resp); err != nil {
		http.Error(w, "error modifying response", http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}

	// marshal the response into json
	data, err := json.Marshal(resp)
	if err != nil {
		// if there was an error while marshalling the json
		http.Error(w, "error marshaling response", http.StatusInternalServerError)
		return
	}

	// return the manipulated response
	w.Write(data)
}

type rawInformation struct {
	Attributes struct {
		Email     []string `json:"email"`
		FirstName []string `json:"firstName"`
		Id        []string `json:"id"`
		LastName  []string `json:"lastName"`
	} `json:"attributes"`
	Id string `json:"id"`
}

func manipulateResponse(resp *retrieveIdentityProviderIntentResponseWrapper) error {
	if resp == nil || resp.IdpInformation == nil || resp.IdpInformation.RawInformation == nil {
		log.Println("missing IDP/User information in the IDP response")
		return nil
	}
	// retrieve raw information from the IDP
	var rawInfoBytes []byte
	var err error
	if rawInfoBytes, err = resp.IdpInformation.RawInformation.MarshalJSON(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// NOTE: the raw information struct used here is specific to MockSAML.
	// Please adapt this to your IDP.
	var rawInfo rawInformation
	if err = json.Unmarshal(rawInfoBytes, &rawInfo); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if len(rawInfo.Attributes.Email) == 0 ||
		len(rawInfo.Attributes.FirstName) == 0 ||
		len(rawInfo.Attributes.LastName) == 0 {
		log.Println("missing required attributes in the IDP response")
		return nil
	}

	// to create a new user.
	if resp.AddHumanUser != nil {
		// set the required fields to create a new user in Zitadel based on the information returned by the IDP
		username := rawInfo.Attributes.Email[0]
		resp.IdpInformation.UserName = username

		resp.AddHumanUser.Profile = &user.SetHumanProfile{
			GivenName:  rawInfo.Attributes.FirstName[0],
			FamilyName: rawInfo.Attributes.LastName[0],
		}
		resp.AddHumanUser.Email = &user.SetHumanEmail{
			Email:        rawInfo.Attributes.Email[0],
			Verification: &user.SetHumanEmail_IsVerified{IsVerified: true},
		}
		resp.AddHumanUser.Username = gu.Ptr(username)
		resp.AddHumanUser.IdpLinks = []*user.IDPLink{
			{
				UserName: username,
				UserId:   resp.GetIdpInformation().GetUserId(),
				IdpId:    resp.GetIdpInformation().GetIdpId(),
			},
		}
	}
	return nil
}

func main() {
	// handle the HTTP call under "/call"
	http.HandleFunc("/call", call)

	// start an HTTP server with the before defined function to handle the endpoint under "http://localhost:8090"
	http.ListenAndServe(":8090", nil)
}

Optional for Login V1 (using Actions V1)

<PrefillAction components={props.components} fields="firstname, lastname, email, display name and username" provider="mockSaml"/>

NOTE: The name of the action should be the same as the function name. In this example, the action should be named mapSAMLIDPAttrs

js
function mapSAMLIDPAttrs(ctx, api) {
    if (ctx.v1.externalUser.externalIdpId != "external-idp-id") {
        return
    }
    // the attribute names below represent the ones used by MockSAML, please adjust accordingly for your IDP.
    let firstname = ctx.v1.providerInfo.attributes["firstName"];
    let lastname = ctx.v1.providerInfo.attributes["lastName"];
    let email = ctx.v1.providerInfo.attributes["email"];
    let username = ctx.v1.providerInfo.attributes["email"];
    if (firstname != undefined) {
        api.setFirstName(firstname[0]);
    }
    if (lastname != undefined) {
        api.setLastName(lastname[0]);
    }
    if (email != undefined) {
        api.setEmail(email[0]);
        api.setEmailVerified(true);
    }
    if (username != undefined) {
        api.setPreferredUsername(username[0]);
    }
}

Test the setup

<TestSetup components={props.components} loginscreen="your SAML login"/>