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Social Login for SAS Visual Analytics Michael Dixon

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Social Login for SAS Visual Analytics

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What is Social Login?

• From Wikipedia:

So Socia ial lo login in, also known as socia ial sig ign-in in, is a form

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social networking service such as Facebook, Twitter

• r Google+, to sign into a third party website

instead of creating a new login account specifically for that website. It is designed to simplify logins for end users as well as provide more and more reliable demographic information to web developers.

Benefits of Social Login

For the User

• Familiarity
• Convenience
• Personalization
• Control over User Data

Benefits of Social Login

For the SAS Environment Owner

• Convenience
• Security
• Less User Maintenance
• Potential for Richer User Data

Key Technology Behind Social Login

OAuth 2

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auth thorization in a sim imple and stan andard method from web, mobile and desktop

• applications. (https://oauth.net/)

Key Pieces of Social Login

For a SAS Environment

• An authentication provider
• Google
• Microsoft
• Facebook
• OAuth integration with SAS authentication flows
• JavaScript SDK hello.js
• Trusted web authentication
• Ability to dynamically add new users to Metadata
• Ability provided by SAS since 9.4M3

Enabling Social Login

Preparation

• Register with a Social Login Provider
• Name of your “Application”
• Authorized Origin (i.e. URL of your SAS Web Server)
• Authorized Redirect URL (i.e. the URL pointing to SASLogon/login)
• Once registered, you will received an OAuth Client ID

Enabling Social Login

SAS Metadata Updates

• Add a new SAS Metadata Group
• This will be the initial Group for all new Social Login users
• Update the Allowed Referrers
• Allows the Social Login provider to return information to your SAS environment
• Enable Custom Logon/Logoff Messages
• This will make the SAS Logon Manager process the custom logon/logoff JSP

pages, which is where the hooks are added for integrating Social Login

Enabling Social Login

Modify SAS Logon Manager

• Security Module
• Enable SAS Web Server Authentication
• User Account Auto-Provisioning
• Checks to see whether the user exists in the SAS Metadata Server and creates

the user if necessary

• Install JavaScript OAuth SDK
• Provides standard JavaScript methods of using OAuth to authenticate against

numerous Social Login providers

• Customize Logon and Logoff Pages
• Social Login buttons are added to the Logon page along with JavaScript OAuth

calls.

Social Login

End User Experience

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