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Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can use their Google Cloud credentials to sign in to enterprise-cloud applications.
Set up SSO via SAML for Emburse
Here's how to set up single sign-on (SSO) via SAML for the Emburse application.
Step 1: Get Google identity provider (IdP) information-
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 AppsWeb and mobile apps.
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Click Add appSearch for apps.
- Enter Emburse in the search field.
- In the search results, hover over the Emburse SAML app and click Select.
- On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the IDP metadata file.
Leave the Admin console open, you'll continue with the configuration wizard after performing the next step in Emburse.
- Open a new incognito browser window.
- Sign in to https://app.emburse.com/login?next=/members with your organization's Emburse admin account.
- Navigate to Admin Company Settings.
- In Single Sign-On (SSO) Settings, click Enable Single Sign-On.
- Enter your organization's domain name and click Next.
- Paste the Google IdP metadata you downloaded in Step 1 into the IdP Metadata text input area in Emburse.
- Click Save.
- Copy and save the Single Sign-on URL (ACS URL). You'll use this URL to finish SSO configuration in the Admin console in the Step 3.
- Return to the Admin console browser tab.
- On the Google Identity Provider details page, click Continue.
- On the Service provider details page, replace the default ACS URL with the ACS URL you copied from Emburse in Step 2.
- Click Continue.
- On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Emburse attributes:
Google directory attribute Emburse attribute Basic Information > First Name firstName Basic Information > Last Name lastName -
(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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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 AppsWeb and mobile apps.
- Select Emburse.
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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 Emburse user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
Emburse 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 AppsWeb and mobile apps.
- Select Emburse.
- At the top left, click Test SAML login.
Emburse 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 https://app.emburse.com/login?next=/members , enter your account email address, and click Next.
- Click Log in with SSO. You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
- Enter your email address and password and click Sign in.
As part of Emburse’s two-factor authentication process, a verification code is sent to the phone associated with your admin account.
- Click Verify Code.
After your sign-in credentials are authenticated, you're automatically redirected back to Emburse.
As a super administrator, you can automatically provision users in the Emburse application.
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