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Enable SSO in Salesforce with Auth0 as the IdP and Salesforce as the Service Provider
Single Sign-on (SSO) is the three letter acronym that should make everyone’s life easier by enabling users to authenticate with multiple systems with a single set of credentials.
This article details integrating Salesforce as a Service Provider (SP) with Auth0 as an Identity Provider (IdP) using SAML2.
Configure Auth0
Auth0 has many preconfigured SSO Service Providers (SP). There is one for Salesforce but it lacks any customization like setting the SAML response or assertion values. The instructions for manually configuring an SP are pretty straight forward. Start with Creating an application in Auth0.
This one is eponymously namedSalesforce and it’s been assigned a client id and a client secret by Auth0. Scrolling to the bottom we need to get the certificate. The Salesforce documentation does not specify the format of the certificate it requires and Auth0 provides three options.
