PingFederate provides an IdP-to-SP Adapter Mapping option on the Main Menu for special IdP use cases requiring PingFederate to act also as an SP on behalf of the actual SP partner. This mapping allows authentication credentials to be directly mapped to create an SP authenticated session or security context. In these cases, the special mapping eliminates the need to create complete SP and IdP connections in a loopback configuration for sending SAML messages back and forth to the same PingFederate server.
This section provides specific instructions for configuring this mapping to enable the Google Apps Password Manager. (For more information, see Adapter-to-adapter mappings in the PingFederate documentation.)