Hi
Is it possible to use SSO for login to the beta and test instances? If so, is there a manual for this?
Hello @jonas_knutsson,
You can configure authentication providers for test and beta in the same way you can for production. The biggest caveat is that the authentication providers will be reset to your production ones during the regular monthly data refreshes, so if you want to have different SSO for test/beta than production, you'd need to reconfigure those on a monthly basis.
-Chris
Thanks Chris. Very helpful and then SSO is not an option for us regarding Beta and Test.
I have found the best way to handle this is to setup your sso auth provider in production, and just not list it in your login options so you can access via manual URL like /login/saml/:auth_provider_id
I have had issues trying to only setup it up from beta, and it not being 'registered' through production. Where it has failed in beta, but then setting it up simultaneously in production even with with a different "id" has triggered it to flow. I think this is because there is some kind of hook that routes these through production… ie… if you look at a SAML config in beta it still shows http://*.instructure.com/saml2 not http://*.beta.instructure.com/saml2. ymmv
My institution uses Okta as its IdP/SSO and while I am not the authentication administrator I am the primary Canvas administrator. I do not believe we have done anything "special" and we can use Okta to get into either beta or test. All I do is go to https://CANVAS_DOMAIN.beta.instructure.com/login or https://CANVAS_DOMAIN.test.instructure.com/login.
It is my understanding that students can log into beta or test but cannot doing anything in a course unless your CSM allows students to go into them.
-Doug
@jonas_knutsson and @Chris, we use test iDPs with Canvas and Productions. To avoid the reset problem, we run a script that resets their config at regular intervals. We do this with our own homegrown LTI's as well.
If understanding correctly you are using a script to update the SAML configuration in Beta/Test instances to set them to required SAML metadata? Assumption is using Instructure API to do this?
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