SAML with EntraID (Azure AD)

Create Application

Navigate to the Microsoft Entra admin center, then go to Identity -> Applications -> Enterprise Applications
Click New Application, and then Create your own application, type a name for your application, like 'knocknoc-dev'. and choose "Integrate any other application you don't find in the gallery (Non-gallery) and click Create.

The following assumes your knocknoc instance is located at https://demo.knoc.cloud. Wherever you see that, please substitute it for your own instance URL.

Assign Groups

Go to Step 1 and Assign a User or group. Ideally you should use a group, as Knocknoc maps Groups to Acls, and the names have to match.

Then go to Step 2, Single Sign-on and select SAML.

Here is where the fun begins!

Basic Saml Configuration

In the Basic SAML section, set the Indentifier (Entity ID) to your knocknoc instance URL: https://demo.knoc.cloud /api/saml/metadata

Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL) (ACS)
Set this to https://demo.knoc.cloud/api/saml/acs

Leave the Optional Basic SAML Configuration options blank at this stage and click Save.

Claims and Attributes

Update the Required Claim, changing the Name Identifier Format to Persistent

Add a group Claim, select Security Groups and Select Group ID for the Source Attribute. Select Save when done.

Remove the other Claims, and add back in the following:

Set SessionDuration to whatever you want the default SessionsDuration to be. You can override this with a user attribute later.

SAML Certificates

Upload your own certificate created like so:

On your own PC or similar:
Make a new cert and key:
openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -nodes -subj /CN=Knocknoc/ -out user-demo-knoc-cloud.crt -keyout user-demo-knoc-cloud.key

Then convert the cert to pfx:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out user-demo-knoc-cloud.pfx -inkey user-demo-knoc-cloud.key -in user-demo-knoc-cloud.crt
Enter a password and note it down.

Import it to the token signing certificate section and make it active

Then download the federation Metadata XML.

Knocknoc Config

In the admin section go to Settings, eg https://demo.knoc.cloud/admin/settings

Type in your PublicURL eg https://demo.knoc.cloud/

For the SAMLMetaDataFile, upload the xml file you downloaded from the previous step.
For the SAMLCertFile, upload the Certificate you downloaded in the previous step.
For the SAMLKeyFile, upload the Key you downloaded in the previous step.

Make a new cert and key:
openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -nodes -subj /CN=Knocknoc/ -out user-demo-knoc-cloud.crt -keyout user-demo-knoc-cloud.key

Then convert the cert to pfx:
openssl pkcs12 -export -out user-demo-knoc-cloud.pfx -inkey user-demo-knoc-cloud.key -in user-demo-knoc-cloud.crt
Enter a password and note it down.

Upload SAML Certificate

Back into Entra ID -> SAML Certificates - Edit. Import Certificate, select the pfx certificate you just created, and enter the password.
Click Add
Then make the new certificate Active, but clicking the dots menu on the right and choosing Make Certificate Active.