CrashPlan cloud application

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With Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can sign in to enterprise cloud applications with their Google Cloud credentials.

Set up SSO via SAML for CrashPlan

Step 1: Set up Google as a SAML identity provider (IdP)

Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
From the Admin console Home page, go to AppsWeb and mobile apps.
Click Add appSearch for apps.
Enter CrashPlan in the search field.
In the search results, hover over the CrashPlan SAML app and click Select.
On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the IDP Metadata.
Click Continue.
On the Service provider details page, the following values are automatically prepopulated:
- ACS URL: https://www.crashplan.com/api/SsoAuthLoginResponse
- Entity ID: https://www.crashplan.com
For Name ID Format, select Email.
Click Continue.

On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding CrashPlan attributes:

Google directory attribute	CrashPlan attribute
Basic Information > Primary email	uid
Basic Information > Primary email	mail
Basic Information > First name	givenName
Basic Information > Last name	sn

(Optional) If you want to send a user’s group membership information in the SAML response, enter the group names that are relevant for this app in the Group membership field.
This feature is currently in beta and not yet available to all customers.
1. Under Google groups, click in the Add group entry field.
2. Type one or more letters of the group name.
3. Choose the group name from the dropdown menu.
4. Add additional groups as needed (total groups cannot exceed 75).
5. Under [app name] attribute, enter the service provider’s corresponding groups attribute name.
Note: Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response will only include groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, see About group membership mapping.
Click Finish.

Step 2: Host the Google IDP metadata to a public file server

Host the IDP metadata file you downloaded in step 1 on a publicly accessible file server.
The IDP metadata must always be available at a specific URL and must be accessed directly. Don't use redirects.
Note the URL for use in step 3.

Step 3: Set up CrashPlan as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)

Log in to CrashPlan as administrator.
Go to Settings Security Single Sign-On and verify that the Enable option is selected.
Provide the following information as applicable for your Code42 environment:
1. Identity provider name: Enter Google Cloud.
2. Identity Provider Metadata (URL): Use the Metadata URL you noted in step 2.
At the Administrator console, double-click the CrashPlan logo to open the command-line interface (CLI).
Enter the following command:

prop.set b42.ssoAuth.nameId.enable true save

The following message appears:

The system property has been set.

Some system properties require a restart before they are recognized.

b42.ssoAuth.nameId.enable=true (saved)
Close the CLI.

Step 4: Set up your Code42 environment to use Google SSO Authentication

In CrashPlan, go to Organizations Org Details Edit Security.
Do one of the following:
- If the parent organization is already using SSO, enable the Inherit security settings from parent option.
- If the parent organization is not already using SSO, disable the Inherit security settings from parent option.
Enable the Use Google Cloud for authentication option.

Step 5: Enable the CrashPlan app

Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
From the Admin console Home page, go to AppsWeb and mobile apps.
Select CrashPlan.
Click User access.
To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
(Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
3. Choose one:
  - If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
  - If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
    Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
(Optional) Turn on the service for a group of users.
Use access groups to turn on a service for specific users within or across your organizational units. Learn more
Ensure that your CrashPlan user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Step 6: Verify that SSO is working

CrashPlan supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:

IdP-initiated

Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).
From the Admin console Home page, go to AppsWeb and mobile apps.
Select CrashPlan.
At the top left, click Test SAML login.
CrashPlan should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

Open CrashPlan and click Sign in Using Google Cloud.
You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
Enter your username and password.
After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected to CrashPlan.

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