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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Can Liferay Support SP and IDP initiated SAML Simultaneously?

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Kenny Back

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Issue

  • Our team is the design phase for authentication and we want to know if Liferay supports IDP and SP initiated SAML logins at the same time? 

Environment

  • DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • No, a single instance should not be both an IDP and a SP.
  • With Liferay, you are either an IDP or an SP. For example, you cannot present yourself as an IDP only to say a 'proxy' and then as an SP to another IDP.

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