--- title: "Enabling Okta SSO connections with your OVHcloud account" description: "Learn how to associate your OVHcloud account with an external Okta service." url: https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/account/account-information/sso-okta lang: en --- > For AI agents: the complete documentation index is available at https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/llms.txt, the full documentation bundle is available at https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/llms-full.txt. # Enabling Okta SSO connections with your OVHcloud account **Learn how to associate your OVHcloud account with an external Okta service.** You can use **Single Sign-On** (SSO) to connect to your OVHcloud account. To enable these connections, your account and your Okta accounts have to be configured using SAML (_Security Assertion Markup Language_) authentications.   ## Requirements - Being an administrator of an Okta service - An [OVHcloud account](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/account/account-information/create-account.md) - Access to the [OVHcloud Control Panel](https://manager.us.ovhcloud.com/#/hub)   ## Instructions **Note:** For a service provider (i.e. your OVHcloud account) to establish an SSO connection with an identity provider (i.e. your Okta service), the key is to establish a mutual trust relationship by registering the SSO connection in both services. ### Registering OVHcloud into Okta Your Okta service acts as an identity provider. Requests to authenticate your OVHcloud account will only be accepted if you have first declared it as a trusted third party. This means that it must be added to **Applications**. Log in to the Okta administration interface with your administrator account. Go to `Applications` then again `Applications`. Click `Create App Integration`, select `SAML 2.0`, then select `Next`. In the **General Settings** step, add a name for this application, such as "OVHcloud," and click `Next`. In the **SAML Settings** step, complete the `Single sign-on URL` and `Audience URI` fields with the information below: - **Single sign-on URL**: `https://us.ovhcloud.com/auth/` and - **Audience URI**: `https://us.ovhcloud.com/auth/` Then set the following **Attribute Statements**: - **Name**: `http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/upn` and **Value**: `user.login` - **Name**: `http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress` and **Value**: `user.email` - **Name**: `http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name` and **Value**: `user.displayName` Set these **Group Attribute Statements**: - **Name**: `groups` and **Filter**: `Matches regex:.*` (Adapt the filter if you want to be more specific) Click `Next`. In the **Feedback** step, select the appropriate option and click `Finish`. Then open the application, go to the `Assignments` tab, and assign users or groups to the application. Before going to the next section, go to the `Sign On` tab, access the **Metadata URL**, and save the provided XML file. Your Okta service now trusts OVHcloud as a service provider. The next step is to ensure that the OVHcloud account trusts your Okta as an identity provider.   ### Registering Okta into the OVHcloud account and configuring the connection To add Okta as a trusted identity provider, you must provide the identity provider metadata in the [OVHcloud Control Panel](https://manager.us.ovhcloud.com/#/hub). 1. Click your `name` and then your `initials`. 2. Select `Identity and Access Management (IAM)` from the left-hand menu. 3. Click the `Identities` tab to access local users management. Click the `SSO connection` button. Fill in the XML metadata of your Okta service. Enter `groups` as the **Group Attribute Name**. Click on `Confirm`. **Note:** You can keep local users by ticking the `Keep active OVHcloud users` box. Now you need to retrieve your Okta as the identity provider, as well as default groups. For more information, click on the link under **SSO service URL**. The _more options_ `...` button allows you to update or delete the SSO, and view its details. Your Okta service is now considered a trusted identity provider. However, you still need to add groups to your OVHcloud account. **Warning:** **NOTE:** If you try to connect via SSO at this point, you will probably receive a `Not in valid groups` error message.\ \ That is because your OVHcloud account checks whether the authenticating user belongs to an existing group on the account. You must then assign **roles** to Okta user groups at OVHcloud. Otherwise, your OVHcloud account does not know what the user is allowed to do and, by default, no rights are assigned. From the OVHcloud Control Panel, add a group by clicking the `Declare a group` button and filling in the fields: - **Group name**: Group name within Okta - **Role**: Level of rights granted to this group When finished, click `Confirm`. You can then verify that the group is added to your OVHcloud account in the "Groups" section: When you later log in with a user from the **Intern** group, your OVHcloud account will recognize that the user has the role "UNPRIVILEGED" specified by his group. **Warning:** **NOTE:** If you set the privileges to `NONE`, you will need to assign permissions to this group via the [IAM policies](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/account/account-information/use-iam-policies-console.md). You will then be able to log out of your account and log back in with your Okta as an identity provider.   ### Connecting via SSO On the [OVHcloud login page](https://auth.us.ovhcloud.com/signin/?action=disconnect\&onsuccess=https%3A%2F%2Fmanager.us.ovhcloud.com%2F%23%2Fhub), enter your [customer code](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/account/account-information/create-account.md#what-is-my-customer-code) followed by **/idp** without entering a password, and click the `Login` button. You are then redirected to your Okta login page. Enter the login and password for a user of your Okta, then click the `Sign in` button. You are now logged in with the same customer code but through your Okta user.   ## Go further Browse all the [Account information guides](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/account/account-information/landing-page-account-information.md). Browse the rest of the [OVHcloud US documentation](https://docs.us.ovhcloud.com/en/index.md) for guides on our other products and services.