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<p class="MsoNormal">No. The application asks Shibboleth to authenticate the user. Shibboleth hands off the authentication to Okta. Okta sees the application being “Shibboleth”. It doesn’t see the actual InCommon SP the user is attempting to access. You could
potentially (manually) add applications in Okta that redirected the user to a URL that would initiate a login to the InCommon SP, but nothing would happen automatically.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you are setting up Shibboleth to authenticate users of InCommon SPs against Okta via SAML, then you are by definition proxying. You can’t discuss the situation without considering the proxying aspects.
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<p class="MsoNormal">As to your other question (can Shibboleth use the Okta MFA product?):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">No, not directly (at least last I looked). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shibboleth relies on Okta MFA indirectly. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I.e., if Okta is configured to require MFA for the “Shibboleth” application, then every user authenticating to Shibboleth through Okta will be challenged for MFA by Okta. In this case Shibboleth logins “use” the Okta MFA.
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, there is no way for Shibboleth to explicitly request that MFA be done, to invoke the Okta MFA directly, or to inspect the result of the MFA challenge by talking to Okta. The Shibboleth operator is just relying on its knowledge
of how Okta’s internal authentication is configured. (If Okta is interacting with a third party MFA solution, then Shibboleth could also be configured to talk to that, but I don’t think that’s what you are asking here).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Lohr, Donald A - lohrda via users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 4, 2023 9:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lohr, Donald A - lohrda <lohrda@jmu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Okta's MFA and Shibboleth<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Yes, I know what you mention about Okta and InCommon.<br>
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For the sake of argument, let's say you were keeping Shibboleth/InCommon and proxying with Shibboleth.<br>
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Will all of the applications that exist in the InCommon metadata have an icon in your Okta portal?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Don</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/4/23 11:45 AM, Herron, Joel D wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">users <a href="mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net">
<users-bounces@shibboleth.net></a> on behalf of Lohr, Donald A - lohrda via users
<a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net"><users@shibboleth.net></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 10:33 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net">users@shibboleth.net</a> <a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net">
<users@shibboleth.net></a><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Lohr, Donald A - lohrda <a href="mailto:lohrda@jmu.edu"><lohrda@jmu.edu></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Okta's MFA and Shibboleth</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Let's remove the proxying part of the conversation for a moment.<br>
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Are you an InCommon Federation member?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Don</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/4/23 11:28 AM, Herron, Joel D wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All I had to do was follow the proxy to another IDP guide and it was an easy setup.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joel Herron<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DevOps Engineer<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">users <a href="mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net">
<users-bounces@shibboleth.net></a> on behalf of Lohr, Donald A - lohrda via users
<a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net"><users@shibboleth.net></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 10:21 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Cantor, Scott <a href="mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu"><cantor.2@osu.edu></a>, Shib Users
<a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net"><users@shibboleth.net></a><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Lohr, Donald A - lohrda <a href="mailto:lohrda@jmu.edu"><lohrda@jmu.edu></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Okta's MFA and Shibboleth</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Basically my question is: Can a Shibboleth IdP be configured to use the Okta vendor's MFA product?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Don</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 4/4/23 11:00 AM, Cantor, Scott wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>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.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>So if you didn't mean all or nothing re: MFA, then you may be correct.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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