When using an on-premises installation, SigningHub gives you an option to use your Microsoft Active Directory credentials to log into SigningHub. You don't even need to have a SigningHub ID, as your organizational domain user ID and password will be used for SigningHub authentication. In such a case, logging in through your Microsoft Active Directory credentials for the first time, will take you to the registration screen and display your Microsoft Active Directory ID (email address) for new registration. After registration, you can log in through your Microsoft Active Directory credentials. However, if the "Automatically register the users" option is enabled from the "Auto Provision Users" screen, and an Active Directory has been selected as an Authentication Profile, then the registration screen will not be displayed, as the provisioned Active Directory users from there will be automatically registered and activated in SigningHub.
Browse your local on-premises installation URL.
Click the "More Login Options" link available at the bottom of the login screen. A dialogue box will appear listing all the supported authentication methods.
Click the "Microsoft Active Directory" option.
Specify your user ID (registered in Active Directory) and domain password.
Click the "Login" button.
Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication process that allows a user to utilise his specific credentials (ID and password) to access multiple applications. The process authenticates the user for all the applications they have been given rights and avoids further prompts when they switch applications during a particular session. The "Microsoft Active Directory" authentication method also supports the Single sign-on (SSO) facility. To configure this, go to the integration screen and select "Active Directory" in the "Default Authentication Method" drop-down. However, there are certain browser based configurations that need to be done at the client's end, in order to seamlessly use SSO against the "Microsoft Active Directory" authentication method.
When accessing the SigningHub app through Microsoft Internet Explorer or Google Chrome for SSO, an individual would need to do the following configurations:
Open the "Internet Options" dialogue box by choosing "Internet Options" either from the Control Panel or from the "Tools" menu in Internet Explorer.
In the "Internet Options" dialog box, on the "Security" tab, select "Local intranet", and then click "Custom Level".
In the "Security Settings" dialogue box, under "Logon", select "Automatic logon only in Intranet zone", and then click "OK".
In the "Internet Options" dialogue box on the "Security Settings" tab with "Local intranet" still selected, click "Sites".
When the end users (within Active Directory) need to access the SigningHub app through Microsoft Internet Explorer or Google Chrome for SSO, a network administrator could make the following browser configurations for all the users through Group Policy:
Open the Group Policy Management Console, and then either create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) or edit an existing GPO.
Expand "Computer Configuration", expand "Policies", expand "Administrative Templates", expand "Windows Components", expand "Internet Explorer", expand "Internet Control Panel", and then click "Security Page".
In the details pane, double-click "Site to Zone Assignment List".
In the "Site to Zone Assignment List Properties" dialog box, click "Enabled".
When accessing the SigningHub app through Mozilla Firefox for SSO, an individual would need to do the following configurations:
Browse the URL "about:config" in Firefox.
Click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
In the next appearing screen, search the "network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris" preference and double-click on it.
A dialogue box will appear, specify the URL of your Communicator Web Access site (for example, https://web.signinghub.com) and click "OK".
In the "Local intranet" dialogue box, click "Advanced".
In the next dialogue box (also titled "Local intranet"), type the URL of your Communicator Web Access site (for example, https://web.signinghub.com) in the "Add this Web site to the zone box", and then click "Add".
In the "Local intranet" dialog, box click "OK".
In the original "Local intranet" dialogue box, click "OK".
In the "Internet Options" dialogue box, click "OK".
In the "Site to Zone Assignment List Properties" dialog box, click "Show".
In the "Show Contents" dialogue box, click "Add".
In the "Add Item" dialogue box, type the URL of your Communicator Web Access site (for example, https://web.signinghub.com) in the "Enter the name of the item to be added" box.
Type "1" (indicating the local intranet zone) in the "Enter the value of the item to be added" box, and then click "OK".
In the "Show Contents" dialogue box, click "OK".
In the "Site to Zone Assignment List" dialog box, click "OK".
In the Group Policy Management Editor, click "Intranet Zone".
In the details pane, double-click "Logon options".
In the "Logon options Properties" dialogue box, click "Enabled".
In the "Logon options" list, click "Automatic logon only in Intranet zone", and then click "OK".
Close the Group Policy Management Editor.
When using an on-premises installation of SigningHub and this is the only configured authentication for the end-users, then you won't need to click the "More Login Options" link to choose it. In that case, this authentication method will be invoked by default on the Login screen.
Users cannot log in to SigningHub if their account is disabled, marked as dormant, or temporarily locked due to multiple invalid login attempts.
If the "Restrict user from editing fields" option is enabled in the user's role and the user logs in through Microsoft Active Directory, any mismatch between their job title and or company in Microsoft Active Directory and SigningHub's Personal Configurations will result in the values from Microsoft Active Directory being mapped onto SigningHub, except when the values in Active Directory are empty or null.
SigningHub gives you the option to pre-authorise users in your Microsoft Active Directory so that they may serve as your registered enterprise users. In this way, your enterprise users can use their Directory credentials (i.e. organizational domain user ID and password) for SigningHub authentication, and won't even need to create their SigningHub IDs.
Configure an Active Directory connector in SigningHub Admin.
Configure the connector in an authentication profile, in SigningHub Admin.
Configure auto provisioning in SigningHub Web.
Configure a security group for auto-provisioning.
Make the following configurations to a connector in SigningHub Admin:
In the "Basic Information" section, choose "Active Directory" as the "Provider".
In the "Details" section, fill in the required fields.
Make the following configurations to an authentication profile in SigningHub Admin:
Select the Active Directory Connector created earlier in the 'Connector' field.
To see in detail, how to pre-authorise users in SigningHub, .
Make the following configurations in the "Users" tab in SigningHub Web:
In the "Auto Provision Users" section, check the "Automatically register the users" check box and select the "Authentication Profile", created earlier. Click the "Save" button.
To see in detail, how to manage security groups in SigningHub, .
SingingHub also allows you to give role-based access to SigningHub (i.e. Enterprise Admin, Enterprise Users, etc.) at the Security Group level.
Make the following configurations to a security group in SigningHub Web:
For the security group, add the name and role of the security group.
Logging in through your Active Directory credentials for the first time, will take you to the registration screen and display your Active Directory (email address) for new registration. After registration, you can easily log in through your Active Directory credentials. However, if the "Automatically register the users" check box is ticked from the "" screen, and an Active Directory has been selected as an Authentication Profile, then the registration screen will not be displayed, as the provisioned Active Directory users from there will be automatically registered and activated in SigningHub.
To see in detail, how to login through Active Directory in SigningHub, .
From the "More Login Options" option, select Active Directory.
Provide your Active Directory credentials.
The following login preferences will be followed when logging into SigningHub Web via Active Directory:
Must have the "Read" permissions on Active Directory to read the Security Groups and email addresses of all the users.
Yes, the security group exists.
Yes, the mapping for the security group exists.
In case the user was already registered, the system will log in the user as per the assigned role.
In case the user was not already registered, the system will register, auto activate, and log in the user as per the assigned role.
Yes, the security group exists.
No, the mapping for the security group does not exist.
In case the user was already registered, the system will log in the user as per the default role.
In case the user was not already registered, the system will register, auto activate, and log in the user as per the default role.
No, the security group does not exist.
N/A
The system will throw an error and will not allow auto-provisioning.
