Kapost cloud application

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Click Add appSearch for apps.
4. Enter Kapost in the search field.
5. In the search results, hover over the Kapost SAML app and click Select. 
6. On the Google Identity Provider details page:
   1. Copy and save the SSO URL.
   2. Download the Certificate.
7. Click Continue.
8. On the Service provider details page, edit the ACS URL, replacing {my-instance} with your Kapost subdomain.
9. Click Continue.
10. On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Kapost attributes:
     

    Google directory attribute	Kapost attribute
    Basic Information > First Name	firstName
    Basic Information > Last Name	lastName

11. (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:

    1. For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
    2. Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
    3. For App attribute, enter the groups attribute name of the corresponding service provider.

    Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response includes only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to About group membership mapping.

12. Click Finish.

1. Open a new incognito browser window and sign in to Kapost as an administrator.
2. Go to Settings  Single Sign-on.
3. (Optional) Check the Autocreate Users option to create new users via Just-in-Time provisioning, and choose their role.
4. Enter the following information:
   1. Issuer Public Cert: Select this option from the list. Open the certificate you downloaded in step 1 above and copy the contents. Paste the contents into this field in Kapost.
   2. Issuer URL: Enter the SSO URL copied in step 1.
5. Select the First/Last Name attribute from the list. 
6. In the corresponding fields, enter firstName in the upper field and lastName in the lower field.
7. ​Click Enable Single Sign-On.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Kapost.
4. Click User access.

5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
7. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.
8. Ensure that your Kapost user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Kapost supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:

IdP-initiated

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Kapost.
4. At the top left, click Test SAML login. 

   Kapost should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

1. Open https://{my-instance}.kapost.com/public/saml/auth. 
   You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
2. Enter your username and password. 
   After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected to Kapost.