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Salesforce.com customization handbook

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Salesforce.com customization handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Salesforce.com Customization Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Authentication providers


These days, we are using various login credentials to access multiple websites such as Facebook and Janrain. To access these websites, you have to remember multiple login credentials, and if you are using Salesforce, that is one more credential to remember. Once you enable this feature, users can log in to Salesforce from an external service provider such as Facebook or Janrain, and there is no need to remember one more credential to log in to Salesforce. You can use your favorite account to log in to Salesforce.

To configure an authentication provider successfully for single sign-on, you need to perform the following activities:

  1. Configure the login service provider website.

  2. Use Apex to create a registration login handler.

  3. Define the authentication provider in your Salesforce.com organization.

  4. Once you set up the authentication provider, the steps that a user has to perform will be described as follows.

  5. Users will try to log in to Salesforce.com using third-party identity...