SSO to OKTA from external application

Questions
1

I want to implement a Single sign on by connecting two apps. the requirements is that when a users logs into the my application, it uses its native authentication method, but fires API authentication to OKTA to automatically log in the user into the New App which I added to the OKTA application portal.

I am using the OKTA application link as a embed link in my local application iframe, so whenever the iframe is loading is always pulling the OKTA login widget for authentication, i want to bypass this authentication by using any auth api. I can see OKTA have api/v1/authn where i have to pass username and password of my OKTA user account and it returns a sessionToken with success message.

But i don’t know how to use this API response to get my requirement done. Appreciate your help!

2

Hello,
You can use the /authorize call with the session token.

What type of application in Okta are you trying to login to, OIDC web app, SPA?

3

Correct me if I am wrong, I am totally new to this SSO concepts. I just want to view a report which is hosted on the Tableau online from my web application build using angular and .net . So I used Okta for the Additional SAML authentication to behave as the Identity Provider. So now I just want to automatically login to Okta from my application to view the embed report using any API call or passing any accesstoken. Is that possible?

4

Does the user’s password exist in Okta or in another Identity Provider? How do users log into Tableau, is it through Okta?