Identity Cloud

Client configuration reference

Enabled

Specifies whether the provider is enabled.

Required: Yes.

Auth ID Key

Specifies the attribute the social identity provider uses to identify an authenticated individual. For example, id, sub, and user_id.

Required: Yes.

Client ID

Specifies the client_id parameter as described in section 2.2 of The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework specification.

Required: Yes.

Client Secret

Specifies the client_secret parameter as described in section 2.3 of The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework specification.

Required: No.

Authentication Endpoint URL

Specifies the URL to the social provider’s endpoint handling authentication as described in section 3.1 of The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework. For example, https://accounts.google.com/oauth2/v2/auth.

Required: Yes.

Access Token Endpoint URL

Specifies the URL to the endpoint handling access tokens as described in section 3.2 of The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework specification. For example, https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token.

Required: Yes.

User Profile Service URL

Specifies the user profile URL that returns profile information. For example, https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/userinfo.

This URL should return JSON objects in its response.

Required: No.

Token Introspection Endpoint URL

The URL to the endpoint handling access token validation, as described in the OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection specification. For example, https://oauth2.googleapis.com/tokeninfo.

Required: No.

Redirect URL

The URL to which the identity provider will redirect the user after authenticating, as described in Section 3.1.2 of The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework specification.

This URL is usually a page or path in Identity Cloud; for example, https://<tenant-env-fqdn>/am?_realm=alpha. The URL is also registered in the identity provider’s service.

If you’re using an app built with the ForgeRock SDKs for Android or iOS, you can also use a custom URI scheme as the redirect For example, com.example.sdkapp:redirect_uri_path or frauth://com.forgerock.ios.sdkapp.

  • When using the FORM_POST response mode, you must specify the form_post endpoint in the redirection URL. Refer to Response Mode for more information.

  • If you encounter domain validation prompts when using forgeblocks.com and id.forgerock.io domains as redirect URLs in your Google OAuth 2.0 applications, you must use a custom domain, and then set up domain verification with Google.

  • If you encounter No provider found errors when using forgeblocks.com and id.forgerock.io domains as redirect URLs in your OAuth 2.0 applications, either modify the redirect URL to include a realm identifier, or use a custom domain:

    • Incorrect:

      https://<tenant-env-fqdn>/am/oauth2/client/form_post/...
    • Correct:

      https://<tenant-env-fqdn>/am/oauth2/<realm>/client/form_post/...

      or

      https://<custom-domain>/am/oauth2/client/form_post/...

      A custom domain acts as a realm DNS alias, so when it’s used as a redirect URL, you don’t have to specify the realm because Identity Cloud implicitly knows which realm to use.

Required: Yes.

Redirect after form post URL

The URL of a custom login page or application. Identity Cloud will send processed form post data related to social login authentication to that URL as the value of the form_post_entry query parameter.

To continue the authentication journey, the custom login page is responsible for making a call to the Identity Cloud /json/authenticate endpoint with the authentication ID (authID) and the processed form data (form_post_entry).

Configure this property when the following is true:

  • The FORM_POST response mode is configured.

  • Your users log in to Identity Cloud using custom login pages, such as apps using the ForgeRock SDKs, instead of the Identity Cloud UI.

    Required: No.

Scope Delimiter

Specifies the delimiter used to separate scope values. For example, a blank space (), or a comma character (,).

Most providers use a blank space.

Required: Yes.

OAuth Scopes

Specifies the list of scopes to request from the provider.

The scopes that the provider returns depends on the permissions that the resource owner, such as the end user, grants to the client application.

For example, Google exposes its supported scopes in their OAuth 2.0 Scopes for Google APIs documentation.

Required: Yes.

Client Authentication Method

Specifies how the client should authenticate to the provider. Possible values are:

CLIENT_SECRET_POST

The client sends the client ID and the secret in the client_ID and the client_secret parameters in the body of the request.

CLIENT_SECRET_BASIC

The client sends the client ID and the secret in a basic authorization header with the base64-encoded value of client-id:client-secret.

PRIVATE_KEY_JWT

The client sends its credentials to the provider in a signed JWT as specified in the JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants.

ENCRYPTED_PRIVATE_KEY_JWT

The client sends its credentials to the provider in a signed, then encrypted JWT as specified in the JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants.

Some authentication methods require additional configuration:

How do I configure JWT authentication with signed JWTs?
  1. Obtain a list of supported signing algorithms from the provider’s .well-known endpoint, and decide which one you will use.

  2. In the Private Key JWT Signing Algorithm field, enter the signing algorithm that Identity Cloud will use to sign the JWT. For example, RSA256.

    This field may already be configured if the client is sending request objects.

  3. Provide a JWK with the public key to the identity provider. Refer to their documentation for more information.

    For example, you could copy the contents of the public JWK in a field in the provider’s service configuration, or you could configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint, which exposes the client’s public keys.

    Configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint in the provider, which exposes the client’s public keys. Refer to the provider’s documentation for more information.

  4. Change the value in the Private Key JWT Expiration Time (seconds) field, if needed. It has a sensible value preconfigured, but you may need to tune it for your provider.

How do I configure JWT authentication with signed and encrypted JWTs?
  1. Follow the steps in How do I configure JWT authentication with signed JWTs? to configure Identity Cloud to sign authentication JWTs.

    Now you are ready to configure Identity Cloud to encrypted authentication JWTs.

  2. Obtain a list of supported encryption algorithms and methods from the provider’s .well-known endpoint, and decide which one you will use.

  3. In the JWT Encryption Algorithm field, select the encryption algorithm.

    If the required encryption algorithm does not appear in the drop-down, check the reference entry for the JWT Encryption Algorithm field for information on how to add it.

    This field may already be configured if the client is encrypting request objects.

  4. In the JWT Encryption Method field, select the encryption method.

    This field may already be configured if the client is encrypting request objects.

  5. In the JWKS URI Endpoint field, configure the URI containing the provider’s public JWK set.

    Obtain the URI from the provider’s .well-known endpoint, or their documentation.

    Identity Cloud will use the JWK URI to fetch the provider’s public encryption key.

  6. Perform one of the following steps depending on the encryption method you configured:

    1. If you chose Direct AES Encryption method, select NONE in the JWT Signing Algorithm field. Signing is redundant with this encryption method.

    2. If you chose an encryption method different from the Direct AES Encryption method, configure signing. For more information, refer to How do I configure JWT authentication with signed JWTs?.

Required: Yes.

PKCE Method

Specifies the PKCE transformation method Identity Cloud uses when making requests to the provider’s authorization endpoint, as specified in Section 4.2 of the Proof Key for Code Exchange by OAuth Public Clients specification.

Select NONE to disable PKCE transformations.

Required: No.

Request Parameter JWT Option

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specifies whether Identity Cloud should provide a request object JWT to the provider. Possible values are:

NONE

Identity Cloud does not send a request object to the provider.

REFERENCE

The request object JWT is stored in Identity Cloud’s CTS token store, and Identity Cloud exposes a unique identifier for it using the oauth2/request_uri endpoint for the realm. The URL to the endpoint and the JWT’s unique identifier are passed to the provider in the request_uri parameter of the request.

Ensure that the provider can reach the endpoint.

An example of the URL is https://platform.example.com:8443/am/realms/root/realms/myRealm/oauth2/request_uri/requestobjectID

When integrating with itsme®, ensure that the base URL of Identity Cloud contains the 443 port. For example, https://platform.example.com:443/am.

To do this, configure the Base URL Source service:

  1. Under Native Consoles > Access Management, go to Realms > Realm Name > Services.

  2. Add a Base URL Source service (if one isn’t already configured) or select it to change its properties:

    A screenshot showing itsme example configuration details for the Base URL Source service.
VALUE

Identity Cloud appends the JWT as the value of the request parameter of the request.

How do I configure the client to send signed request objects?
  1. In the Request Parameter JWT Option field, select either VALUE or REFERENCE.

    Refer to your identity provider’s documentation for more information.

  2. Obtain a list of supported signing algorithms from the provider’s .well-known endpoint, and decide which one you will use.

  3. In the JWT Signing Algorithm field, select the signing algorithm that Identity Cloud will use to sign the request object. For example, RS256.

    This field may already be configured if the client is using JWT client authentication.

  4. Provide a JWK with the public key to the identity provider. Refer to their documentation for more information.

    For example, you could copy the contents of the public JWK in a field in the provider’s service configuration, or you could configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint, which exposes the client’s public keys.

    Configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint in the provider, which exposes the client’s public keys. Refer to the provider’s documentation for more information.

How do I configure the client to send signed and encrypted request objects?
  1. Follow the steps in How do I configure the client to send signed request objects? to configure Identity Cloud to send signed request objects.

    Now you are ready to configure Identity Cloud to send encrypted request objects.

  2. Enable Encrypt Request Parameter JWT.

  3. Obtain a list of supported encryption algorithms and methods from the provider’s .well-known endpoint, and decide which one you will use.

  4. In the JWT Encryption Algorithm field, select the encryption algorithm.

    If the required encryption algorithm does not appear in the drop-down, check the reference entry for the JWT Encryption Algorithm field for information on how to add it.

    This field may already be configured if the client is encrypting authentication JTWs.

  5. In the JWT Encryption Method field, select the encryption method.

    This field may already be configured if the client is encrypting authentication JWTs.

  6. In the JWKS URI Endpoint field, configure the URI containing the provider’s public JWK set.

    Obtain the URI from the provider’s .well-known endpoint.

    Identity Cloud will use the JWK URI to fetch the provider’s public encryption key.

  7. Perform one of the following steps depending on the encryption method you configured:

    1. If you chose Direct AES Encryption method, select NONE in the JWT Signing Algorithm field. Signing is redundant with this encryption method.

    2. If you chose an encryption method different from the Direct AES Encryption method, configure signing. For more information, refer to How do I configure the client to send signed request objects?.

Encrypt Request Parameter JWT

Specifies whether the request parameter must be encrypted when Request Parameter JWT Option is set to REFERENCE or VALUE.

ACR Values

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specifies a space-separated list, in order of preference, of the client’s acr values.

Required: No.

Well Known Endpoint

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specifies the URL for retrieving information about the provider, such as endpoints, and public keys. For example, https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration.

Required: Yes.

Request Object Audience

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specifies the intended audience (aud) of the request object when the Request Parameter JWT Option field is set to VALUE or REFERENCE.

When not configured, the value of the Issuer field will be used as the audience of the request object.

OP Encrypts ID Tokens

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specifies whether the provider encrypts ID Tokens.

How do I configure Identity Cloud to receive encrypted tokens?
  1. Provide a JWK with the public key to the identity provider. Refer to the identity provider’s documentation for more information.

    For example, you could copy the contents of the public JWK in a field in the provider’s service configuration, or you could configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint, which exposes the client’s public keys.

    Configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint in the provider, which exposes the client’s public keys. Refer to the provider’s documentation for more information.

Required: No.

Issuer

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specifies the issuer of ID Tokens.

Either specify a regular expression or a string value that must exactly match the value returned in the ID token, depending on the configuration of the Issuer comparison check setting.

Obtain the issuer value from the provider’s .well-known endpoint.

Required: Yes.

Enable Native Nonce

(OpenID Connect providers only) When enabled, the provider native SDK must include a nonce claim in the ID token. The value of the claim must be the value of the nonce claim sent in the Authentication Request.

Required: No.

User Info Response Format

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specifies the format in which the provider’s userinfo endpoint returns data.

Some options require additional configuration:

How do I configure the client to receive signed userinfo JWTs?
  1. In the JWKS URI Endpoint field, configure the URL containing the provider’s public JWK set. Obtain it from the provider’s .well-known endpoint, or their documentation.

    Identity Cloud will use this URL to fetch the provider’s public signing key.

How do I configure the client to receive signed, then encrypted userinfo JWTs?
  1. Follow the steps in How do I configure the client to receive signed userinfo JWTs? to configure Identity Cloud to receive signed JWTs.

    Now you are ready to configure Identity Cloud to receive encrypted JWTs.

  2. Provide a JWK with the public key to the identity provider. Refer to the their documentation for more information.

    For example, you could copy the contents of the public JWK in a field in the provider’s service configuration, or you could configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint, which exposes the client’s public keys.

    Configure the realm’s /oauth2/connect/rp/jwk_uri endpoint in the provider, which exposes the client’s public keys. Refer to the provider’s documentation for more information.

Possible values are:

JSON

The provider’s userinfo endpoint returns a JSON object.

SIGNED_JWT

The provider’s userinfo endpoint returns a signed JWT.

SIGNED_THEN_ENCRYPTED_JWT

The provider’s userinfo endpoint returns a signed, then encrypted JWT.

JWKS URI Endpoint

The URI that contains the public keys of the identity provider. Identity Cloud will use these keys to verify signatures or to encrypt objects.

Configure this field when:

  • Client Authentication Method is set to ENCRYPTED_PRIVATE_KEY_JWT.

  • Encrypt Request Parameter JWT is enabled.

  • User Info Response Format is set to SIGNED_JWT or SIGNED_THEN_ENCRYPTED_JWT.

Required: No.

Claims

Any claims on the request object, in JSON format. These claims must conform to the claims request parameter, as defined in the OpenID Connect specification.

JWT Signing Algorithm

Specifies the signing algorithm supported by the provider that Identity Cloud will use to sign the following:

  • Client authentication JWTs when Client Authentication Method is set to PRIVATE_KEY_JWT.

  • (OpenID Connect providers only) Request JWTs when Request Parameter JWT Option is set to VALUE or REFERENCE.

Obtain a list of the supported algorithms from the provider’s .well-known endpoint. Select NONE if the client will encrypt the JWT with the Direct AES Encryption method, because the signature will be redundant.
Required: No.

JWT Encryption Algorithm

The encryption algorithm supported by the provider that Identity Cloud should use to encrypt client authentication JWTs when Client Authentication Method is set to PRIVATE_KEY_JWT, and (OpenID Connect providers only) request JWTs when Request Parameter JWT Option is set to VALUE or REFERENCE.

If set to NONE, Identity Cloud will not encrypt the JWTs. Obtain a list of the supported algorithms from the provider’s .well-known endpoint.

Required: No.

JWT Encryption Method

The encryption algorithm supported by the provider that Identity Cloud should use to encrypt the following:

  • Client authentication JWTs when Client Authentication Method is set to PRIVATE_KEY_JWT.

  • (OpenID Connect providers only) Request JWTs when Request Parameter JWT Option is set to VALUE or REFERENCE.

Use in conjunction with JWT Encryption Algorithm. Obtain a list of the supported methods from the provider’s .well-known endpoint.
Required: No.

Private Key JWT Expiration Time (seconds)

Specifies the amount of time, in seconds, that Identity Cloud will cache the client authentication JWT before creating a new one.

Caching the JWT avoids creating a new one for every client authentication. However, it may also become invalid if the provider changes it configuration.

Required: No.

Response Mode

(OpenID Connect providers only) Specify the way the provider will return ID tokens to Identity Cloud. Possible values are:

  • DEFAULT. The provider returns the ID token as query parameters, as explained in the OpenID Connect Core 1.0 incorporating errata set 1 specification.

    Most preconfigured providers use the DEFAULT response mode.

  • FORM_POST. The provider returns the ID token by submitting an HTML form using the HTTP POST method, as explained in the OAuth 2.0 Form Post Response Mode specification.

    When using this response mode, add the /oauth2/client/form_post/ClientConfigName URI to the Redirect URL, where ClientConfigName is the name of the social identity provider client that you are configuring. For example, https://platform.example.com:8443/am/oauth2/client/form_post/myAppleClient.

    By default, the form_post endpoint processes the post data, encrypts it, and redirects with it back to the authentication journey to resume authentication.

    However, environments using custom login pages need to configure the Redirect after form post URL property to redirect back to the custom login pages.

    Required: Yes.

Certificate Revocation Checking Options

Specify one or more options to be used by the TLS certificate revocation checking mechanism.

The possible values are:

  • ONLY_END_ENTITY: Only check the revocation status of end-entity certificates.

  • PREFER_CRLS: Prefer certificate revocation lists (CRLs) to Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).

  • NO_FALLBACK: Disable the fallback mechanism.

  • SOFT_FAIL: Allow revocation check to succeed if the revocation status cannot be determined due to a network error.

  • DISABLE_REVOCATION_CHECKING: Disable all revocation checking.

Including DISABLE_REVOCATION_CHECKING as one of the options will prevent any revocation checking. For further details of the other options, refer to: PKIXRevocationChecker.Option.

If no options are selected, the default behavior is to enable revocation checking with SOFT_FAIL.

If the certificate does not specify any OCSP or CRL endpoints, the revocation checking will hard fail even if the SOFT_FAIL option is enabled. In this case, an administrator could disable revocation checking.

Use custom trust store

Specifies whether a custom truststore is used to verify the server certificate of the .well-known endpoint or JWKs URI of an OpenID provider (OP) in a TLS handshake.

If enabled, a secret label is generated dynamically using the alphanumeric characters of the client configuration name. For example, a client configuration called sampleOidcConfig results in a secret label named am.services.oidc.reliant.party.sampleOidcConfig.truststore.

Note that an administrator must map the generated secret label to an alias that exists in the realm secret store.

If this setting is not enabled, the default truststore is used to verify the server certificate.

Request Native App for UserInfo

(Apple SSO) When enabled, this flag indicates that the native app can send the user’s userinfo in JSON format.

Apple returns the userinfo only once, when the user first consents to send their details, and not on subsequent authentication attempts. In addition, the user has the option not to consent to Apple sending their userinfo.

If you are progressively profiling the userinfo with data from other social providers—​usually by using a Patch Object node--there is a risk of overwriting the user’s details with blank values when the user authenticates through Apple SSO.

To mitigate this risk, you can add a Scripted Decision node to your authentication journey to assess whether userinfo is provided.

How do I use a Scripted Decision node to check userinfo?

The normalized-profile-to-managed-user.js script sets a boolean flag (nameEmptyOrNull) that indicates whether Apple returned the user’s firstName and lastName.

Add a Scripted Decision node to your journey that evaluates the flag and sets the outcome accordingly; for example:

  • Next-generation

  • Legacy

if (nodeState.get('nameEmptyOrNull')) {
  action.goTo("true");
} else {
  action.goTo("false");
}
var fr = JavaImporter(org.forgerock.openam.auth.node.api.Action);

if (nodeState.get('nameEmptyOrNull')) {
  action = fr.Action.goTo("true").build();
} else {
action = fr.Action.goTo("false").build();
}

You can now configure your journey to patch the userinfo object based on the outcome of the Scripted Decision node. If you need to progressively profile the user information on every authentication, regardless of whether the user’s first name and last name are returned by the OIDC provider, you can use another Scripted Decision node that does the following:

  • If the user details aren’t present, route the userinfo patch through a Patch Object node configured to ignore the firstName and lastName. (In the Ignored Fields list, add givenName to ignore the firstName and sn to ignore the lastName.)

  • If the user details are present, route the userinfo patch through a Patch Object node that patches the full object.

Required: No.

UI Config Properties

Specifies a map of properties defined and consumed in the UI. The map affects how the identity provider’s logo will show on the login page.

Identity Cloud common end user UI properties
  • buttonImage: A relative path to an image in the End User UI.

  • buttonCustomStyle: Any custom CSS you wish to apply to the button outside of normal End User UI styling.

  • buttonClass: Adds the specified class to the identity provider button, for any additional styling you want to apply.

  • buttonCustomStyleHover: Adds custom styling when the cursor is hovering over the button.

  • buttonDisplayName: The name of the identity provider, which will be included either on the button or in the button’s alt attribute, depending on styling.

  • iconFontColor: Specifies the color of the icon. You can use methods supported in CSS (such as white, or #ffffff).

  • iconClass: Adds the specified class to the identity provider icon, for any additional styling you want to apply.

  • iconBackground: The color for the background of the icon. You can use methods supported in CSS (such as white, or #ffffff).

Required: Yes

Transform Script

A script to convert the provider’s raw profile object into a normalized object.

Each social identity provider returns different user profile information using their own attribute names.

For example, Google’s OIDC /userinfo endpoint returns claims, which Identity Cloud stores in a rawProfile object. The following google-profile-normalization.js script maps the attributes of this object to Identity Cloud profile attributes:

(function () {
    var frJava = JavaImporter(
        org.forgerock.json.JsonValue
    );

    var normalizedProfileData = frJava.JsonValue.json(frJava.JsonValue.object());

    normalizedProfileData.put('id', rawProfile.get('sub'));
    normalizedProfileData.put('displayName', rawProfile.get('name'));
    normalizedProfileData.put('givenName', rawProfile.get('given_name'));
    normalizedProfileData.put('familyName', rawProfile.get('family_name'));
    normalizedProfileData.put('photoUrl', rawProfile.get('picture'));
    normalizedProfileData.put('email', rawProfile.get('email'));
    normalizedProfileData.put('username', rawProfile.get('email'));
    normalizedProfileData.put('locale', rawProfile.get('locale'));

    return normalizedProfileData;
}());

The script returns a JsonValue object containing normalized attributes in the following format: ("<platformAttributeName>", rawProfile.<providerAttributeName>)

Even if field names are the same, such as email and rawProfile.email, they still need to be mapped for them to be included in the returned JSON object.

Identity Cloud provides default scripts for other preconfigured identity providers. To view the bindings and expected return values, find the <identity provider>-profile-normalization.* scripts in Sample scripts.

To write your own script in Javascript for an identity provider, go to Realms > Realm Name > Scripts, and use the provided scripts as a reference.

When a user authenticates, the social authentication journey calls another transformation script set in the Social Provider Handler node to convert the attributes again; this time into an identity object that Identity Cloud can process.

Social authentication nodes expect every attribute to have a value. In other words, the attributes returned by the identity provider cannot be empty or null, or the journey will end with an error.

For example, if a user tries to log in using Google as the identity provider, but they did not configure a surname in their account, Google returns null as the value of the familyName for the identity, and social authentication fails.

Ensure all users have their social profiles configured correctly, or modify the transformation scripts so that they don’t collect null or empty attributes.

Required: Yes

Issuer comparison check

(OpenID Connect providers only) Determines how the expected issuer value should match the actual value of the iss claim:

  • EXACT: Identity Cloud performs a string comparison between the expected and actual issuer values, which must result in an exact match.

  • REGEX: Identity Cloud evaluates the expected issuer value as a regular expression, against which the actual value must match.

    This lets social identity providers use a common issuer value for multiple tenants, which is replaced with a unique value during the OpenID Connection authentication flow. For example, ^https://login.microsoftonline.com/(.*)/v2.0$ is successfully matched against https://login.microsoftonline.com/tenant-d5c6a592-eec6-47f0/v2.0.

    Consider the performance impact when constructing regular expressions as the comparison is performed for each social identity provider interaction.

    Also, ensure the regular expression is as specific as possible to avoid matching against incorrect issuer values.

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