Sitefinity CMS authentication supports Single-Sign-On (SSO), based on OpenID Connect protocol. You can use Sitefinity CMS built-in OpenID Connect Security Token Service (STS) for any other applications using the OpenID Connect protocol.
Using one Sitefinity CMS instance as an STS, you can configure many Sitefinity CMS instances (or any other application) to authenticate with SSO provided by this single STS instance.
IMPORTANT: This feature only works with the OpenID protocol and is being deprecated.
You configure the Sitefinity CMS instance, which will act as a relying party, by configuring and OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication provider in its local STS (Identity server). The external OIDC authentication provider authenticates to the STS Sitefinity CMS instance. To do so, follow the instruction in the article Administration: Configure the OpenID Connect provider.
When configuring the provider, you need to make sure you provide the accurate values for the following parameters:
Use the following procedure to configure the Sitefinity CMS instance that you want to use as Security Token Service.
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