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Add X login

You can add X login to your applications using WSO2 Identity Server and enable users to log in with their X accounts.

Register WSO2 Identity Server on X

  1. Log in to the X Developer Portal using your X credentials.

  2. Navigate to Projects & Apps, click Add project and provide details of your project.

  3. Either during project creation, or by navigating to your created project in Projects & Apps, click Add App.

    1. Provide an App name. Set X app_name

    2. Take note of the API Key and API Key Secret of the application. Set X app_name

  4. Click App Settings at the bottom of the page.

  5. Click Set up under User Authentication Settings and do the following.

  6. Under Type of App select Web App, Automated App or Bot.

  7. Fill in the user authentication details with the following values.

    • Callback URI / Redirect URL - https://localhost:9443/commonauth
    • Website URL - http://localhost.com:8080/pickup-dispatch/home.jsp

    Setup_user_authentication

  8. Click Save.

    Note

    The App Client ID and App client secret presented at this moment is not required for this guide.

Register the X IdP

Now, let's register the Microsoft IdP in WSO2 Identity Server.

  1. On the WSO2 Identity Server Console, go to Connections.

  2. Click Create Connection and select Custom Connector.

  3. Provide a name and a description for the connector and click Finish.

    Create a custom connector

  4. On the created custom connector, go to the Settings tab.

  5. Click New Authenticator, select Twitter and click Next.

  6. Enter the following details and click Finish.

    Configure the X connector

    Parameter Description
    API Key The API key generated when registering WSO2 Identity Server in X.
    e.g. wuerRmdgwlqX0oE1WNDdsh17o
    API Secret The API Key Secret generated when registering WSO2 Identity Server in X.
    e.g. 771tqnkpcbRyTBSCRQvVud1x8j1uQlCDpNZo3hRG0s4cEtsFky
    Callback URL

    The Callback URL you entered when registering WSO2 Identity Server in X. This is the URL to which the browser should be redirected after the authentication is successful.

    e.g. https://localhost:9443/commonauth

When a user logs in with an external identity provider using the same email address registered in a local account, JIT-provisioning overrides the attributes of the local account with the attributes received from the external identity provider.

WSO2 Identity Server, by default, disables Just-In-Time (JIT) user provisioning for your external identity provider.

To enable JIT-provisioning,

  1. On the WSO2 Identity Server Console, click Connections and select the relevant connection.

  2. Go to the Just-in-Time Provisioning tab of the selected connection.

  3. Check/Uncheck the Just-in-Time (JIT) User Provisioning checkbox to enable/disable it.

    enable/disable JIT user provisioning

  4. Click Update to save the changes.

Note

Enable X login

Before you begin

You need to register an application with WSO2 Identity Server. You can register your own application or use one of the sample applications provided.

  1. On the WSO2 Identity Server Console, go to Applications.

  2. Select your application, go to the Login Flow tab and add X login from your preferred editor:

    1. Click Add Sign In Option to add a new authenticator to the first step.

    2. Select the Twitter connection.

    3. Click Confirm to add login with X to the sign-in flow.

      Configuring X login in WSO2 Identity Server using the Visual Editor

    Recommendations

    It is recommended to add your social and enterprise connections to the first authentication step as they are used for identifying the user.

  3. Click Update to save your changes.

Try it out

Follow the steps given below.

  1. Access the application URL.

  2. Click Login to open the WSO2 Identity Server login page.

  3. On the WSO2 Identity Server login page, Sign in with X.

    Login with X

  4. Log in to X with an existing user account.

Note

When a user successfully logs in with X for the first time, a user account is created in the WSO2 Identity Server Console with the X username. This new user account will be managed by X.

Configure user attributes

Configuring attributes for an Identity Provider (IdP) involves mapping the attributes available in the external IdP to local attributes. This is done so that WSO2 Identity Server can identify the user attributes in the response sent from the external IdP.

To do so,

  1. On the WSO2 Identity Server Console, click Connections.

  2. Select the relevant IdP connection from the list and click Set up.

  3. Go to the Attributes tab and under Identity Provider Attribute Mappings, click Add Attribute Mapping.

    Go to attributes section in IdP

  4. Enter the external attribute, select the corresponding local attribute to which it maps and click Add Attribute Mapping.

    Map IdP attributes

  5. Click Save to save the entries.

  6. Under Subject, select a Subject Attribute that will be used to uniquely identify the user.

  7. Under Provisioning Attributes Selection, select the required attributes that needs to be sent in the response to provision the user in WSO2 Identity Server.

  8. Click Update to save the changes.

Configure connection

To learn more about other configurations available for the connection, refer to the add federated login documentation.