# AWX Okta Integration With SAML

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-okta-integration-with-saml/37913>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [April 20, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-okta-integration-with-saml/37913 "2023-04-20T20:12:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dave\_Waller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dave\_Waller](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dave_Waller)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-okta-integration-with-saml/37913/1 "2023-04-20T20:12:23Z")

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I have been struggling with this for quite a while and I am confused on how to deploy the SAML authentication.

I am deploying using kustomization and I have tried to just enter the infor in the web UI following this doc:  
[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/administration/ent\_auth.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/administration/ent_auth.html)

The I reset all of that and switched to adding it in the deploy yaml in the extra settings described on this doc:  
[https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/12238](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/12238)

Neither has been successful and now I cannot even login. It seems that if you bork the SAML config on a deploy even the admin secret password will not get you in.

The Okta admins here provide some XML and a cert but that seems to need to be converted to JSON.

Is there a better doc that I can follow for Okta?

Dave