Add Support for SAML Based externalBrowser Authentication

[minus34]

Our organisation uses SAML based SSO with externalBrowser authentication. We don't have an alternative for non-service (i.e. user) accounts.

This works fine for the Snowflake Connector for Python and connecting to Snowflake in JetBrains IntelliJ or DataGrip.

Can this authentication type be added to the QGIS plugin?

[sfc-gh-obielov]

Hey @minus34, the SSO with Browser authentication should work. You need to select SSO as connection type when creating a new connection. Could you try and let me know if it worked?. If not, please provide info on what SSO provider you use.

[minus34]

Thanks Oleksii, it might actually be a bug. I assumed it was a missing feature in v0.9.0.

When I try to login using SSO with or without basic authentication I get the error in the image below. I also get the same error whether I use my real parameters or the dummy ones in the image.

FYI - this is my connection statement I use in Python:

conn = snowflake.connector.connect(
    user=user,
    account=account,
    role=role,
    # warehouse=warehouse,
    # database=database,
    # schema=schema,
    authenticator="externalbrowser"
)