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With Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can sign in to enterprise cloud applications with their Google Cloud credentials.
Set up SSO via SAML for CrashPlan
Step 1: Set up Google as a SAML identity provider (IdP)-
Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Apps
Web and mobile apps.
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Click Add app
- Enter CrashPlan in the search field.
- In the search results, hover over the CrashPlan SAML app and click Select.
- On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the IDP Metadata.
- Click Continue.
- On the Service provider details page, the following values are automatically prepopulated:
- ACS URL: https://crashplan.com/api/SsoAuthLoginResponse
- Entity ID: https://crashplan.com
- For Name ID Format, select Email.
- Click Continue.
- On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding CrashPlan attributes:
Google directory attribute CrashPlan attribute Basic Information > Primary email uid Basic Information > Primary email mail Basic Information > First name givenName Basic Information > Last name sn -
(Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:
- For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
- Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
- 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.
- Click Finish.
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Host the IDP metadata file you downloaded in step 1 on a publicly accessible file server.
The IDP metadata must always be available at a specific URL and must be accessed directly. Don't use redirects. -
Note the URL for use in step 3.
Step 3: Set up CrashPlan as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)
- Log in to CrashPlan as administrator.
- Go to Settings
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Provide the following information as applicable for your Code42 environment:
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Identity provider name: Enter Google Cloud.
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Identity Provider Metadata (URL): Use the Metadata URL you noted in step 2.
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At the Administrator console, double-click the CrashPlan logo to open the command-line interface (CLI).
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Enter the following command:
prop.set b42.ssoAuth.nameId.enable true save
The following message appears:
The system property has been set.Some system properties require a restart before they are recognized.
b42.ssoAuth.nameId.enable=true (saved)
- Close the CLI.
Step 4: Set up your Code42 environment to use Google SSO Authentication
- In CrashPlan, go to Organizations
- Do one of the following:
- If the parent organization is already using SSO, enable the Inherit security settings from parent option.
- If the parent organization is not already using SSO, disable the Inherit security settings from parent option.
- Enable the Use Google Cloud for authentication option.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
- Select CrashPlan.
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Click User access.
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To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
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(Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- To change the Service status, select On or Off.
- 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.
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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.
- Ensure that your CrashPlan user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
CrashPlan supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:
IdP-initiated
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
- Select CrashPlan.
- At the top left, click Test SAML login.
CrashPlan 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
- Open CrashPlan and click Sign in Using Google Cloud.
You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page. - Enter your username and password.
After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected to CrashPlan.
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