How to set up user provisioning with LDAP or SCIM

Wire supports the SCIM (RFC 7643) protocol to create, update and delete users.

If your user data is stored in an LDAP data source like Active Directory or OpenLDAP, you can use our docker-base ldap-scim-bridge to connect it to wire.

Note that connecting a SCIM client to Wire also disables the functionality to create new users in the SSO login process. This functionality is disabled when a token is created (see below) and re-enabled when all tokens have been deleted.

To set up the connection of your SCIM client (e.g. Azure Active Directory) you need to provide

  1. The URL under which Wire’s SCIM API is hosted: https://prod-nginz-https.wire.com/scim/v2. If you are hosting your own instance of Wire then the URL is https://<hostname>/scim/v2, where <hostname> is where you are serving Wire’s public endpoints. Some SCIM clients append /v2 to the URL your provide. If this happens (check the URL mentioned in error messages of your SCIM client) then please provide the URL without the /v2 suffix, i.e. https://prod-nginz-https.wire.com/scim or https://<hostname>/scim.

  2. A secret token which authorizes the use of the SCIM API. Use the wire_scim_token.py script to generate a token. To run the script you need access to an user account with “admin” privileges that can login via email and password. Note that the token is independent from the admin account that created it, i.e. the token remains valid if the admin account gets deleted or changed.

You need to configure your SCIM client to use the following mandatory SCIM attributes:

  1. Set the userName attribute to the desired user handle (the handle is shown with an @ prefix in apps). It must be unique accross the entire Wire Cloud (or unique on your own instance), and consist of the characters a-z0-9_.- (no capital letters).

  2. Set the displayName attribute to the user’s desired display name, e.g. “Jane Doe”. It must consist of 1-128 unicode characters. It does not need to be unique.

  3. The externalId attribute:

    1. If you are using Wire’s SAML SSO feature then set externalId attribute to the same identifier used for NameID in your SAML configuration (both fields must match case sensitively).

    2. If you are using email/password authentication then set the externalId attribute to the user’s email address. The user will receive an invitation email during provisioning. Also note that the account will be set to "active": false until the user has accepted the invitation and activated the account.

You can optionally make use of Wire’s urn:wire:scim:schemas:profile:1.0 extension field to store arbitrary user profile data that is shown in the users profile, e.g. department, role. See docs for details.