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Use OAuth to Authenticate Users

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OAuth is an open-standard authorization protocol that many organizations use to authenticate individuals and provide Single Sign-on (SSO).

We support authentication with OAuth 2.0 and your organization's Google account.

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If you're on an Acrolinx Private Cloud 35469215 instance and are interested in these configurations, contact us and we'll set them for you!

If you're a Standard Stack user, you can edit the coreserver.properties from the configuration directory. Depending on your installation, your path might look like this:

<config directory>/server/bin/coreserver.properties.

Configuration Steps for Standard Stack

To use OAuth authentication with Google, follow these steps:

  1. Open your coreserver.properties file.

  2. Add the following properties:

    authentication.useExternal=true
authentication.external=oauth
authentication.external.oauth.provider=google
authentication.external.oauth.clientId=<CLIENT_ID_FROM_OAUTH_SERVICE_PROVIDER>
authentication.external.oauth.clientSecret=<CLIENT_SECRET_FROM_OAUTH_SERVICE_PROVIDER>
authentication.external.oauth.callbackUrl=<ACROLINX_URL>/dashboard/api/oauth/callback

    The following example uses authentication with Google:

    authentication.useExternal=true
authentication.external=oauth
authentication.external.oauth.provider=google
authentication.external.oauth.clientId=12345678901234567890
authentication.external.oauth.clientSecret=09876543210987654321
authentication.external.oauth.callbackUrl=http://acrolinx.instance.com/dashboard/api/oauth/callback

  3. Save your changes and restart the Acrolinx Platform.