Sometimes, we need specific attributes like an E-Mail address or the userPrincipalName to be passed from a SAML IDP to the SP. If you use a Citrix ADC / NetScaler as SAML IDP, it is, indeed, an easy thing to do. Let’s have a look. Extracting attributes from LDAP The first step, of course, is always to retrieve an attribute from LDAP. This is done via an LDAP policy. I won’t go into...
I came across following issue, doing a Citrix ADC / NetScaler project: My customer wanted to use Azure MFA for internal users and LDAP/RADIUS for external users like contractors and parters. That’s a typical use-case for n-factor authentication. So how do we solve problems like that? The solution A Solution based on group membership The difference between internal and external users is...
last update: 2023/02/03 Tested with NetScaler 11, Citrix ADC 12.1 and 13.0 I needed to use a Citrix ADC (NetScaler) both, as a SAML identity provider (IDP) and service provider (SP). So I set up my test environment accordingly. What my test environment looked like: You see, I created two admin partitions on my Citrix NetScaler ADC, one for the service provider (SP partition), containing both, the...