Create a New Authentication Profile
Authentication profiles provide the ways through which the end users may authenticate themselves to the SigningHub Desktop Web. In addition to the conventional email/ password based authentication, SigningHub also allows the authentication facility through different external Identity Providers (IdP) i.e. BankID, Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, Google, Linked-in, Salesforce, SSL Client, Office 365, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), IDfy, Freja eID, Azure Active Directory, itsme, etc. Based on the business requirements, you can manage (Add, Edit, and Delete) different authentication profiles to offer multiple modes of authentication to your end users.
Create a new authentication profile
Create a new authentication connector (i.e. Office 365 authentication, Active Directory authentication, Salesforce authentication, IDfy authentication, itsme, etc.) for whom you want to create an authentication profile.
Click the 'Configurations' option from the navigation panel.
Click the 'Authentication Profiles' option.
The 'Authentication Profiles' page is displayed for you to make the necessary changes.
Click the
icon from the grid header.
The 'Add' authentication profile screen will appear to add the authentication profile details. It comprises of two sections, i.e. Basic Information and Details. Specify the basic information and click the
button to provide the respective authentication profile details. Click the 'Create' button. A new authentication profile will be saved and displayed in the list. See the table below for field descriptions.
Authentication Profile
Fields
Description
Name
Specify a unique name for this authentication profile, i.e. My SigningHub Authentication. This name will be displayed at the login screen.
Description
Specify any description related to this authentication profile for your record.
Sort Order
Specify the sort order for displaying the authentication profiles on the login screen for the users to sign in. This is an optional field, and by default, this field will be empty.
The authentication profiles with sort orders 1 to 3 will be displayed on the login screen, and the authentication profiles with the succeeding sort orders will be displayed in the "More Login Options" dialogue on the login screen. The authentication profiles for which a sort order has been provided will follow the defined sort order, and the remaining authentication profiles will follow the default system sort order.
Method
Select the authentication method (i.e. Email/ Password Authentication, Mobile Authentication, Azure Active Directory Authentication, Active Directory Authentication, Google, Salesforce Authentication, IDfy Authentication, itsme, etc.) for this profile.
Connector
This field will appear to select the related connector when you select any third-party authentication method above. Click 
to view the details of the selected connector. See details on how to create a new connector.
The "Email/ Password Authentication" and "SSL Client Authentication" methods don't require any third-party authentication method, and therefore, the "Connector" field is not shown for them.
Details
If you select the "Azure Active Directory Authentication" method, the "Details" fields will appear, in addition to the "Connector" field, to specify the "Allowed Groups" information.
The "Allowed Groups" field refers to the (comma-separated) authorised security groups in your Azure Active Directory (i.e. Sales, Marketing, Accounts, etc.) that are used for provisioning in SigningHub.
If you select the "Active Directory Authentication" method, the "Details" fields will appear, in addition to the "Connector" field, to specify the "Fully Qualified Domain Name", and the "Allowed Groups" information.
The "Fully Qualified Domain Name" field refers to the complete domain name that has been configured by your IT Administrator and consists of all the domain users, i.e. mySigninghub.com.
The "Allowed Groups" field refers to the (comma-separated) authorised security groups in your Active Directory (i.e. Sales, Marketing, Accounts, etc.) that are used for provisioning in SigningHub.
Active
Tick this check box to make this authentication profile active. Only the active profiles are available to the end users on their Login screen, Signing screen and Integration screen..
Private
Tick this check box to mark this authentication profile as private. A private profile will not be available to the (public) end users on their Login screen, Signing screen and Integration screen of SigningHub Desktop Web.
Private profiles from here will be available in the "Settings" tab of service plan configuration, and are used for the corporate logins and signing authentication.
You can associate any supported external Identity Provider (i.e. BankID, Active Directory, Google, etc.) as required with a private authentication profile to make it exclusive for a corporate.
Validate client certificate
This check box will only appear when you select the "SSL Client Authentication" method. Tick it if you want SigningHub to validate the users' certificates every time they use them for authentication. In this way, the users with expired or revoked certificates will not be able to log into SigningHub Desktop Web.
Required password authentication
This check box will only appear when you select the "SSL Client Authentication" method. Tick it if you want SigningHub to ask for SigningHub ID password as well from a user, when they choose their SSL certificate (from the list) for system login. This will work as two-factor authentication, where users will have to first select their certificate and then provide their SigningHub ID password to log into SigningHub Desktop Web.
In case a user does not have their SigningHub password, they will be asked to activate their account to set a SigningHub password by following the activation email steps.
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