Version: 1.15

Okta Authentication

STEP 1

Create A New App In Okta

The first step is to create a new Okta App for Loft.

Create App for loft — Okta - Create a new App in Okta

Next select "Web" App and make sure OpenID Connect is the single sign on method.

In the next screen make sure the login redirect URIs contain your Loft instance domain:

# Exchange the ${my-loft-domain.com} with your Loft domain
https://${my-loft-domain.com}/auth/oidc/callback

STEP 2

Enable Refresh Tokens

After creating an Okta app for Loft, ensure that "Refresh Token" is checked under "Allowed grant types" - otherwise your users will have to re-login everytime after a session expires.

STEP 3

Enable Group Claims

If you want to propagate the users groups to Loft, then make sure the Group Filters in Okta are set accordingly. If you want to propagate all groups, add a RegEx filter with '.*'

Okta Assign Peoples — Okta - Propagate User Groups To Loft

STEP 4

Configure Loft To Use Okta

After configuring Okta for Loft, navigate to Admin > Config in Loft and enter the following configuration:

auth:
  oidc:
    issuerUrl: 'https://${MY-OKTA-SUBDOMAIN}.okta.com'
    clientId: CLIENT_ID
    clientSecret: CLIENT_SECRET
    groupsClaim: groups
    # This is needed because okta uses thin id tokens
    # that do not contain the groups directly
    getUserInfo: true

STEP 5

Add Users via Okta Assigments

Please make also sure that you have assigned the correct Users and Groups that you would like to access Loft in Okta.

After users or their groups are assigned to Loft, they will be able to log in via Okta:

STEP 6

Disable Username + Password Authentication (optional)

To disable password-based authentication, navigate to Admin > Config add these two lines to your config:

auth:
  oidc: ...             # This is your SSO configuration (make sure this is working!)
  password:
    disabled: true      # Disable password-based authentication