Facebook Social Identity Provider

Set Up Facebook

To set up Facebook as a social identity provider, navigate to the Facebook for Developers page. You'll need a Facebook account. While you could use a personal Facebook account, it is best to use an organizational account to avoid problems if specific individuals leave your organization. When you set up a Facebook social identity provider, you'll need to perform the following tasks:

For Facebook's documentation on the subject, see Facebook Login for the Web with the JavaScript SDK.

Configure a Facebook Social Identity Provider

When you enable a Facebook social identity provider in the Admin UI, IDM generates the identityProvider-facebook.json file in your project's conf/ subdirectory.

It includes parts of the file that you may have configured through the Admin UI. While the labels in the UI specify App ID and App Secret, you'll see them as clientId and clientSecret, respectively, in the configuration file.

{
   "provider" : "facebook",
   "authorizationEndpoint" : "https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth",
   "tokenEndpoint" : "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.7/oauth/access_token",
   "userInfoEndpoint" : "https://graph.facebook.com/me?fields=id,name,picture,email,first_name,last_name,locale"
   "clientId" : "<someUUID>",
   "clientSecret" : {
       "$crypto" : {
           "type" : "x-simple-encryption",
           "value" : {
             "cipher" : "AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding",
             "stableId" : "openidm-sym-default",
             "salt" : "<hashValue>",
             "data" : "<encryptedValue>",
             "keySize" : 16,
             "purpose" : "idm.config.encryption",
             "iv" : "<encryptedValue>",
             "mac" : "<hashValue>"
           }
       }
   },
   "scope" : [
       "email",
       "user_birthday"
   ],
...

You should also see UI settings related to the social identity provider icon (badge) and the sign-in button, described in "Social Identity Provider Button and Badge Properties".

You'll see links related to the authenticationIdKey, redirectUri, and configClass; the location may vary.

The file includes schema information, which includes properties for each social identity account, as collected by IDM, as well as the order in which it appears in the Admin UI. When you've registered a user with a Facebook social identity, you can verify this by selecting Manage > Facebook, and then selecting a user.

Another part of the file includes a propertyMap, which maps user information entries between the source (social identity provider) and the target (IDM).

If you need more information about the properties in this file, refer to the following appendix: "Facebook Social Identity Provider Configuration Details".

Configure User Registration to Link to Facebook

Once you've configured the Facebook social identity provider, you can activate it through User Registration. To do so in the Admin UI, select Configure > User Registration, and under the Social tab, enable the option associated with Social Registration. For more information about user self-service features, see "Self-Service End User UI".

When you enable social registration, you're allowing users to register on IDM through all active social identity providers.

Facebook Social Identity Provider Configuration Details

You can set up the Facebook social identity provider through the Admin UI or in a conf/identityProvider-facebook.json file. IDM generates the identityProvider-facebook.json file when you configure and enable this social identity provider in the Admin UI. Alternatively, you can create the file manually.

The following table includes the information shown in the Admin UI Facebook Provider pop-up window, along with associated information in the identityProvider-facebook.json file:

For information on social identity provider buttons and badges, see "Social Identity Provider Button and Badge Properties".