Technical Tip: how to add a certificate for remote SSO authentication
| Description | This article describes how to successfully add a certificate on FortiPortal to configure remote SSO authentication. |
| Scope | When configuring SSO remote authentication FPC complains the certificate is not valid, the following error message is displayed:
'Invalid Certificate: Need Base64 encoded'.
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| Solution | The solution is to remove '-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----' and '-----END CERTIFICATE-----' and to make it one line. |

