Creating a Google authentication service

Create a Google SSO authentication service so that users can authenticate using Google as the identity provider.

Before you begin: To create an authentication service, you must have the pzCanCreateAuthService privilege, which is included in the PegaRULES:SecurityAdministrator role.

Before you create a Google authentication service, you must register with the identity provider and obtain a client ID and client secret. You do this outside of Pega Platform.

This is a quick way to define an authentication service with Google as the OIDC provider. The result is the same as creating an OIDC authentication service and manually specifying the values needed for Google.
  1. In the navigation panel of App Studio, click Users > Single sign-on (SSO).
  2. Click New, and then click Google.
  3. Enter a Name for the service.
    Result: The value that you enter is used to populate the Login URL field. Users access this URL to log in to your application.
  4. Optional: The Client ID and Client secret field default to the values that you used to log in. If you need different values, enter the values that were assigned by your identity provider.
  5. Optional: To automatically create an operator when the operator who is logging in does not already exist in the Pega database, do the following steps.
    1. Select the Create operators for new users check box.
    2. In the Access role list, click the access role for the new user.
  6. Click Submit.
  7. To enable the authentication service, on the Single sign-on (SSO) landing page, where the new service is listed, turn on the switch.