Canvas LMS authentication with SAML

[dotan laks]

Has anyone succeeded doing so?

I don't understand all the fields that I need to form after I choose SAML as the Canvas authentication type.

I tried searching the Web for useful information regarding SAML and havn't found enough of it.

If you could explain to me about those fields that I need to form,

or reference me to usful information about SAML -  I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Wes Hargrove]

Dotan, check out https://wiki.oasis-open.org/security/FrontPage for documentation on SAML 2.0.

Here is a brief summary of the items on the new SAML configuration page in Canvas.

IDP Entity ID: Globally unique identifier for your SAML 2.0 identity provider (IDP). (This is the service that is responsible for authenticating your users, e.g. Shibboleth.)

Log On URL: The location of the login page where your users authenticate with your identity provider.

Log Out URL: The location of the log out page where your users can terminate their session with your identity provider.

Change Password Link: The location of the reset password page for your users.

Certificate Fingerprint: An abbreviation of the certificate used by your IDP to sign its messages. (Fingerprints are typically encoded as hexadecimal strings, e.g. 43:51:43:a1:b5:fc:8b:b7:0a:3a:a9:b1:0f:66:73:a8.)

Login Attribute: This is the attribute that Canvas will look for in the SAML assertion to match an authenticated user from your IDP with a user in Canvas.

Identifier Format: If using NameID as the login attribute, this specifies the format of the identifier.

Authentication Context: How the user authenticated to your IDP. (This value is sent in the SAML assertion.)

Login Label: A label to help you associate a unique login identifier for your Canvas users with your IDP. (On the user's profile the value associated with this label would be the value sent by your IDP.)

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Wes Hargrove

Integration Engineer

lynda.com

+1 (805) 364-2295

whar...@lynda.com

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[dotan laks]

Thanks! That helps a lot!

[sr.ba...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I tried to integrate SAML in my laravel application for Canvas LMS.
But the destination url (saml_consume) is giving 'Page not found'.
What is the reason? Please help.