topic Re: How to SSO to Sense from a Web Portal in Integration, Extension & APIs

How to SSO to Sense from a Web Portal

vegard_bakke — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 08:20:55 GMT

In our use case, the user is already logged into a web portal, authenticated with username and password.

We have set up qlik-auth from braathen, and can successfully login with his demo sample on NodeJS.

However, I seem to only be able to get this working when initiated from Sense (SP initiated). We need the solution to be initiated from the web portal (IdP initiated). (Ref: StackOverflow: Differences between SP an IdP initiated SSO.)

How can we securely pass the loggedin user credentials from the Web portal server side, to the Authentication module (i.e. qlik-auth).

Is qlik-auth made for SP-initiated (Sense initiated) scenarios only, or am I missing something?

I'm familiar with the QlikView way of ticketing, so maybe that is confusing me.

According to Qlik Sense SAML: ADFS Integration‌, IdP initiated SAML is currently (May 2016) not supported. But does that mean that Qlik Sens does not IdP-initiated (web portal initiated SSO) at all?

Hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,

Vegard

Re: How to SSO to Sense from a Web Portal

vegard_bakke — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:03:52 GMT

Has anyone connected to Qlik Sense by SSO?

If so, in what way?

Cheers,

Vegard

Re: How to SSO to Sense from a Web Portal

mall1m — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:36:04 GMT

Does anyone manage to do this ?

Re: How to SSO to Sense from a Web Portal

Vincenzo_Esposito — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:27:59 GMT

May be, in your case, the most suitable solution should be the "Header Solution" http://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/3.2/Subsystems/PlanningQlikSenseDeployments/Content/Server/Server-Security-Authentication-Solutions-Header-Solution.htm

Your application will be in the middle between the clients and Qlik Sense. Your app in in charge of authenticate the users, as usual, and allow a user to land on QS just putting the username in the HTML header