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The purpose of distributed Single sign-on and Single sign-out is automatically sign-in and sign-out to multiple different external services (herein: SSO target) when user signs in to onePortal Trivore Identity Service (TIS) via user-interface or OpenID Connect. For example, when user signs in to https://oneportal.t5.fi he/she will also be signed in to https://service1.example ja https://service2.example.com. Every namespace in onePortal TIS can have multiple different external SSO targets and sign-on to these targets is completely transparent to user.
Mechanisms
Currently, onePortal TIS provides two different mechanisms for Single sign-on: Management API (REST) and OpenID Connect. It is recommended to choose OpenID Connect when possible. Management API mechanism can be used when the SSO target already uses onePortal TIS Management API for other purposes and already has required API credentials. In this case, it is simply less of a development burden to implement SSO via Management API.
Please note that SSO mechanisms are independent of the sign-in procedure being used. For example, if user signs in to onePortal TIS via OpenID Connect, he/she can be automatically sign in to every SSO target regardless if those targets use Manangement API or OpenID connect mechanism. SSO mechanism defines the mechanism between the SSO target and onePortal TIS server which is different/independent from the procedure between the user's browser and onePortal TIS server.
Description of functionality
Single sign-on procedure is executed when user signs in to onePortal TIS via user-interface or OpenID Connect. In both cases, user's browser will receive HTML <img> elements that contain src= attribute with an URL that points to the SSO target callback URL (meaning that the SSO requests originate from user's browser, not from onePortal TIS server). Query parameters sso-token and sso-validity will be automatically added to this URL..
The SSO target can then use the token to fetch related user information from onePortal TIS using either Management API or OpenID Connect, depending on the defined mechanism for the target. Parameter sso-token is a unique token that can only be used by the SSO target that it was assigned to. Ie. tokens can not be shared between different targets but each target will be given its own token. Tokens can be used only once as they are deleted immediately after being consumed. Parameter sso-validity defines the token validity time in minutes, after this validity period, the token will be permanently removed and can not be consumed anymore by the SSO target.
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Single sign-out procedure is executed when user signs out from onePortal TIS via user-interface or OpenID Connect. In both cases, user's browser will receive HTML <img> elements that contain src= attribute with an URL that points to the SSO target sign-out URL (meaning that the SSO requests originate from user's browser, not from onePortal TIS server). When SSO target receives this sign-out request, it should immediately invalidate user's session or, at least, remove any user-related information from session. These <img> tags are generated only for SSO targets that have consumed their token as there is no need to sign out from target that has not consumed the token because the user is not signed in to that service. All tokens, consumed or not, for current session will also be removed from database on Single sign-out which means that they can not be consumed afterwards.
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