Okta's MFA and Shibboleth

[Herron, Joel D]

Yes, we are. We will be using a third party integration with Okta to manage the two federations that we are part of. Until we implement that solution we will keep inCommon in shibboleth. There is no built-in way to manage a federation in Okta your either keeping shibboleth and proxying or purchasing a third party product to manage it for you.

--Joel

From: users <users-bounces at shibboleth.net> on behalf of Lohr, Donald A - lohrda via users <users at shibboleth.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 10:33 AM
To: users at shibboleth.net <users at shibboleth.net>
Cc: Lohr, Donald A - lohrda <lohrda at jmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Okta's MFA and Shibboleth
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Let's remove the proxying part of the conversation for a moment.

Are you an InCommon Federation member?

Thanks,
Don
On 4/4/23 11:28 AM, Herron, Joel D wrote:
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Don,
We are in the process of setting up okta. I can tell you that I have successfully proxied the IDP back to Okta and then you can use whatever MFA method you want to inside of Okta. We are still using Duo through Okta and it is working just fine. I will also heavily agree with Scott  Okta’s SAML implementation is trash.

All I had to do was follow the proxy to another IDP guide and it was an easy setup.

Joel Herron
DevOps Engineer
ICIT
UW-Whitewater



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Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 10:21 AM
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Subject: Re: Okta's MFA and Shibboleth
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Basically my question is: Can a Shibboleth IdP be configured to use the Okta vendor's MFA product?

Thanks,
Don
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What may be true however is that you may not have the ability to control which applications get MFA'd by Okta, given that they very likely do not support the actual proxying semantics of SAML or have the ability to consume the RequesterID element to influence behavior.



So if you didn't mean all or nothing re: MFA, then you may be correct.



-- Scott








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