WeDid: Single Sign-On for Salesforce and OpenLDAP
May 30, 2014 /
Posted in We Did
Challenges
To provide secure SSO to salesforce.com, without the need for users or the IT department to manage yet another set of user credentials. One username and password for multiple systems means less management overhead. Single sign on provides a great user experience and reduced frustration at having to remember yet another password.
Solution:
| Purpose | Utilise identities in existing LDAP repository for secure SSO to Salesforce. |
| Applications | salesforce.com, Open DS LDAP Directory |
| Versions | Salesforce Spring ’10 PingFederate 6.1 |
| Single Sign On Solution | Customised Intranet PingFederate |
| Information | User credentials for authentication |
| SSO | When a user accesses Salesforce either via
The user is authenticated via their current LDAP credentials. |
| Complexity | Medium |