SSOwat

A simple LDAP SSO for NGINX, written in Lua.

Issues

• Please report issues to the YunoHost bugtracker.

Requirements

• nginx-extras from Debian wheezy-backports
• lua-json
• lua-ldap
• lua-filesystem
• lua-socket
• lua-rex-pcre

OR

• "OpenResty" flavored NGINX: https://openresty.org/
• lua-ldap
• lua-filesystem
• lua-socket
• lua-rex-pcre

Installation

• Fetch the repository

git clone https://github.com/YunoHost/SSOwat /etc/ssowat

NGINX configuration

• Add SSOwat's NGINX configuration (http{} scope)

nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/ssowat.conf

lua_shared_dict cache 10m;
init_by_lua_file   /etc/ssowat/init.lua;
access_by_lua_file /etc/ssowat/access.lua;

You can also put the access_by_lua_file directive in a server{} scope if you want to protect only a vhost.

SSOwat configuration

mv /etc/ssowat/conf.json.example /etc/ssowat/conf.json
nano /etc/ssowat/conf.json

If you use YunoHost, you may want to edit the /etc/ssowat/conf.json.persistent file, since the /etc/ssowat/conf.json will often be overwritten.

Available parameters

Only the portal_domain SSOwat configuration parameters is required, but it is recommended to know the others to fully understand what you can do with it.

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portal_domain

Domain of the authentication portal. It has to be a domain, IP addresses will not work with SSOwat (Required).

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portal_path

URI of the authentication portal (default: /ssowat/). This path must end with “/”.

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portal_port

Web port of the authentication portal (default: 443 for https, 80 for http).

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portal_scheme

Whether authentication should use secure connection or not (default: https).

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domains

List of handled domains (default: similar to portal_domain).

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ldap_host

LDAP server hostname (default: localhost).

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ldap_group

LDAP group to search in (default: ou=users,dc=yunohost,dc=org).

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ldap_identifier

LDAP user identifier (default: uid).

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ldap_attributes

User's attributes to fetch from LDAP (default: ["uid", "givenname", "sn", "cn", "homedirectory", "mail", "maildrop"]).

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ldap_enforce_crypt

Let SSOwat re-encrypt weakly-encrypted LDAP passwords into the safer sha-512 (crypt) (default: true).

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allow_mail_authentication

Whether users can authenticate with their mail address (default: true).

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login_arg

URI argument to use for cross-domain authentication (default: sso_login).

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additional_headers

Array of additionnal HTTP headers to set once user is authenticated (default: { "Remote-User": "uid" }).

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session_timeout

The session expiracy time limit in seconds, since the last connection (default: 86400 / one day).

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session_max_timeout

The session expiracy time limit in seconds (default: 604800 / one week).

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redirected_urls

Array of URLs and/or URIs to redirect and their redirect URI/URL (example: { "/": "example.org/subpath" }).

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redirected_regex

Array of regular expressions to be matched against URLs and URIs and their redirect URI/URL (example: { "example.org/megusta$": "example.org/subpath" }).

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default_language

Language code used by default in views (default: en).

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permissions

The list of permissions depicted as follows:

"myapp.main": {
    "auth_header": true,
    "label": "MyApp",
    "public": true,
    "show_tile": true,
    "uris": [
        "example.tld/myapp"
    ],
    "users": [
        "JaneDoe",
        "JohnDoe"
    ]
},
"myapp.admin": {
    "auth_header": true,
    "label": "MyApp (admin)",
    "public": false,
    "show_tile": false,
    "uris": [
        "example.tld/myapp/admin"
    ],
    "users": [
        "JaneDoe"
    ]
},
"myapp.api": {
    "auth_header": false,
    "label": "MyApp (api)",
    "public": true,
    "show_tile": false,
    "uris": [
        "re:domain%.tld/%.well%-known/.*"
    ],
    "users": []
}

auth_header

Does the SSO add an authentication header that allows certain apps to connect automatically? (True by default)

label

A user-friendly name displayed in the portal and in the administration panel to manage permission. (By convention it is of the form: Name of the app (specificity of this permission))

public

Can a person who is not connected to the SSO have access to this authorization?

show_tile

Display or not the tile in the user portal.

uris

A list of url attatched to this permission, a regex url start with re:.

users

A list of users which is allowed to access to this permission. If public.