I have a saml Keycloak client which contains an Authentication Flow Override to a custom keycloak SPI authenticator built in java and deployed in the keycloak env. The authenticator is pretty simple, it displays a username field and takes that username, does a 3rd party check, then returns a verdict (go/nogo, yes/no, etc.)
I have a SAML SP sending a request to this keycloak client (as an IDP). The SP request has a LoginHint. When the Custom Authenticator receives this request in the authenticate method, it cannot retrieve the HTTP Post parameters because there are none.
When user enters their information into the custom authenticators form and clicks submit, and when the action method takes over, the new HTTP POST params are there.
I need to retrieve the loginHint in the authenticate method from the incoming SP SAML request.
anyone know how to do this? i cant read in the login_hint for the life of me.
login_hint and variations thereof belong to OpenID Connect (OIDC) implementations. In SAML you have to use RelayState (recommended) or an authentication request extension.
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I am implementing SSO using an external Identity provider to which I do not have access yet.
The IDP metadata IDPSSODescriptor has one SingleSignOnService tag with a binding value of: urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST
Does this imply that I cannot initiate an authentication request to the SingleSignOnService location with a GET request or that the service will respond with a POST request?
It means that the protocol endpoints that you will interact with expect POST interaction from the client (typically a browser). This is required these days for sending the assertion from the IdP to SP, but Redirect is usually acceptable in the case of the SP sending an AuthnRequest to the IdP.
we currently run our IdP on Firebase auth. One of our partner (service provider) only supports SAML 2.0. They want us to send in a request with a payload to a URL with User's email address.
I do not have much experience SAML 2.0, what you guys think the best approach for this would be?
Sorry for a vague question.
Thanks,
Sam
Firstly, You will have to configure your SP and IDP by exchanging the metadata(via a URL or XML file or manually). From the question, it seems that you are looking for IDP initiated SSO. After a user successfully authenticates with the IDP, the IDP sends a response(XML payload) which contains the user identifier typically a username or email. The SP will read the payload and after verifying the data it will create the user session in your SP.
The SAML response looks something like this.
I am implementing front-channel SAML 2.0 SSO golang Service Provider, with Okta as my Identity Provider (this is just a POC and should eventually work with any IdP).
Implementing the sign on process was straightforward with saml2 package. I've created the login endpoint that redirects to the SAML application login URL at the intended IdP, as well as the POST callback endpoint which is properly receiving the SAML assertion and is able to validate it. After that a session with a random cookie is created with the same TTL as the Identity Provider session TTL. So far everything works well (I haven't implemented Single Sign-Out yet, but I'm planning to).
However, when some time passes and the session expires, I'd like to renew it only if the user is still logged in with the Idp and hasn't been removed from the SAML Application. I would like to avoid redirecting the user to perform SSO again with IdP, because it would mean that if they are still logged in, they would be redirected back to the home page of my application. I wasn't able to find great sources on my options to go about it online.
Questions:
1.1 One solution that comes to mind is storing the requested URL in the RelayState parameter, whenever the session has expired, then redirect the user to the IdP SSO URL. When the redirect returns to the SAML callback POST endpoint, check the RelayState parameter and if set, redirect back to that (original) URL. That means that for users that use the system continuously, I would have to request Assertions very often. Does that make sense?
1.2 A second solution that comes to mind is to implement a back-channel of communicating directly from my SP to the IdP. That would allow me to verify a user is still logged in 'behind the users back'. If that's a sound idea:
a. Do I need to have dedicated code for each IdP?
b. Do I need to load an API key to the IdP which would allow secure communication?
c. Do I need to upload a public certificate to the IdP that would be able to verify that my SP signed the requests?
Will using the Assertion to get an OAuth 2.0 Access Token help me in achieving this?
I've chosen SAML 2.0 for now, since the environment is an enterprise oriented one and I thought it fits well with it based on what I read. Would using OpenID Connect instead help achieve my goals easier and fit well with enterprise oriented products?
I have written a web application which makes REST API calls to a message broker. The message broker contains already written REST APIs to which can be used to get message broker data. The message broker is written in a way in which each REST API call sends the user name and password which is encoded with base64. I need to make a login to my web app and authenticate it with OAuth.Does anyone know how to do this? How to authenticate the REST APIs with OAuth?
Step 1: Add OAuth 2.0 to your web server. This is very standard with lots of libraries available. You did not specify the Identity Provider that you will use (Google, Facebook, Auth0, Okta, etc), but each vendor has documents and libraries for you to use in your desired language.
Step 2: Add an Authorization Header to your API calls. The standard method is to add the HTTP header Authorization: Bearer access_token when making an API call.
Step 3: Add OAuth token verification to your API. When your API receives a request, it extracts the Authorization header and verifies the Bearer token. How this is done depends on the Identity Provider. For example, some vendors provide a Signed JWT (which you verify with the vendors public certificate), others provide an opaque access token (which you verify by calling the vendor's token endpoint). Add internal caching of tokens so that you don't need to verify on every API call.
If you understand OAuth 2.0 the above steps are straightforward to implement. If you don't Oracle has a set of videos which are excellent for getting started understanding OAuth.
Oracle Cloud Primers
If your desired OAuth implementation does not require users logging in and is a server to server service that you control on both ends, then you can use just part of OAuth which is Signed JWT (JWS). You create a Json data structure with your desired content and sign it with a private key. This creates a token that you can use in the above steps. You would then validate the token using your public key. You can use self-generated keypairs generated by OpenSSL or similar products for your signing and verification.
So I'm struggling a bit with the basics of the flow of SAML. Here's the scenario I find confusing.
I have a java web application. The user is logged in. I know they want to order cookies from a 3rd party because they've clicked on the "I want chocolate chip cookies" link. I also know that "Mrs. Pillsbury Cookies Co." is a "Service Provider" because she sent me her meta-data and I've registered her with my Gluu Server (IdP). I've also sent her my IdP meta-data so we've done the whole hand-shaking thing.
My question is...how do I now send the SAMLResponse to Mrs. Pillsbury? She's given me a SOAP endpoint that is waiting for a SAMLResponse. How do I tell my Java application to get some XML from my gluu server as a SAMLReponse that I can then pass to the Pillsbury SOAP endpoint? That's the part where I'm stuck...I don't know how to get a response to forward. I can see in the metadata that there are lots of SSO endpoints
<SingleSignOnService Binding="urn:mace:shibboleth:2.0:profiles:AuthnRequest" Location="https://idp.myjavaapp.com/idp/profile/SAML2/Unsolicited/SSO"/>
<SingleSignOnService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://idp.myjavaapp.com/idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO"/>
<SingleSignOnService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST-SimpleSign" Location="https://idp.myjavaapp.com/idp/profile/SAML2/POST-SimpleSign/SSO
Am I supposed to hit one of those SSO endpoints and it'll generate a response that I can then forward on to Pillsbury? Can one of you SAML experts out there get me straigtened out? Thanks in advance.
There are a few ways SAML Requests/Responses can be generated.
IdP initiated:
This is a SAML Response generated w/o a SAML request. This requires the user to login/be logged into the idP and the idP will generate a SAML Response based off the SP setup in the idp.
SP initiated:
This is usually an HTTP Redirect but can be a POST as well. This is a SAML Request Redirect/POST that gets sent to the idP based of some link or button on the SP's website.
As I understand it you have the following relationship:
Your App
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3rd Party ordering
/
IdP Server
Your app needs to make a request to the 3rd party, but also need it to authenticate against the IdP. Yes?
Normally the process works such that the 3rd party requests the token itself. Your app shouldn't have the token intended for the 3rd party -- it should only have the token for its own app.
Usually you send whatever your app-specific request is to the 3rd party first. When they receive that bit of information they hold onto it and then make a SP-Initiated authentication request to your IdP. They will attach a bit of information as part of the auth request called relay state. This bit of information is used to reconstitute the session after the IdP responds.
Once the IdP receives the request it does whatever it needs to do to authenticate the user, and sends the token back to the 3rd party. As part of that response they also send the relay state. The 3rd party then verifies the token and sets the session as necessary, then reads the relay state and sets whatever internal state is necessary to continue the order.
You're on the right track. As the previous answers have explained, it can be done one of two ways: the SP site (Pillsbury) sends you an authentication request, or you can direct your IDP/Gluu server to send an SAML message to the SP without them prompting: "unsolicited".
In the case of the first "SP-Initiated", you just create a link to the SP site for the user's browser to follow. The user's browser hits the SP site, the SP site realizes that it needs to authenticate the user: so it creates a SAML Authentication Request to your IDP endpoint, directing the user's browser there. Then your IDP server will respond according to the metadata/relationship that you've set up with the SP site. Just as one of the other answers explained, this Authentication Request can include a RelayState parameter which will be sent back to the SP to tell them where to send the user after the SAML message had been consumed & validated. I haven't used Gluu but I believe the SP would use the second endpoint you showed in your question to do this.
In the case of the second "IDP-initiated", you need to direct the user's browser to one of the Gluu server endpoints to generate a SAML assertion, which will be POST'd back to the SP site without the SP site's prompting. This one is less used because every time the user is directed to the SP site from your site, they will be forced through the AuthN process among other reasons. I believe this is the first listed endpoint that you showed in your question.
Here's a really good explanation of IDP-initiated from Shibboleth, that should help clear this up for you: https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPUnsolicitedSSO
Best of luck!