/spid-shibboleth-proxy-docker

SPID authentication proxy based on Shibboleth service provider

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End of Life Disclaimer

  • This repository is no longer maintained
  • The software stack included within the project does not fully implement the SPID specifications
  • The use in production is strongly discouraged.

SPID Auth Docker

SPID Auth Docker is a service provider based on shibboleth that takes care of the SPID authentication process with the Identity Provider and redirects the attributes of the final response to the set address so that they can be used by the application.

SPID Auth Docker has been developed and is maintained by AgID - Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale.

Disclaimer

It's highly recommended to use the latest release of the image. The versioning follows the SemVer rules.

How to quickly test it

  1. Create a directory to store SAML certificates and another to store log files

    $ mkdir -vp /tmp/certs /tmp/log/{httpd,shibboleth,shibboleth-www}
    
  2. Create a docker compose file (docker-compose.yml) with the following content. Note: set SERVER_NAME to a publicly reachable IP or FQDN.

    version: '3'
    
    services:
      authproxy:
        image: spid-auth-proxy
        build:
          context: .
          dockerfile: Dockerfile
        ports:
          - '80:80'
          - '443:443'
        volumes:
          - '/tmp/certs:/opt/shibboleth-sp/certs'
          - '/tmp/log:/var/log'
        environment:
          ORGANIZATION: 'My eGov Service'
          SERVER_NAME: 'my.auth.proxy.com'
          ENTITY_ID: 'https://my.auth.proxy.com'
          TARGET_BACKEND: 'https://mytargetapp.my.cloud.provider.com'
          TARGET_LOCATION: '/login'
          ACS_INDEXES: '1;2'
          ACS_1_LABEL: 'set 1'
          ACS_1_ATTRS: 'name;familyName;fiscalNumber;email'
          ACS_2_LABEL: 'set 2'
          ACS_2_ATTRS: 'spidCode;fiscalNumber'

    You can use docker-compose.quickstart.yml, which is available in this repository.

  3. Execute the Docker environmnet with the following command

    $ docker-compose up --build
    

    It will

    • build the docker image

    • generate a self-signed certificate for TLS (SERVER_NAME used as CN), SAML assertions signature (SAML Signature as CN) and SAML metadata signature (SAML Metadata Signature as CN)

    • generate the Shibboleth/Httpd configuration according to the environment variables

    • execure shibd and httpd

  4. If everything gone well, you should be able to access the URL

    https://<SERVER_NAME>/metadata
    

    Open it and use the following information

    • entityID under <md:EntityDescriptor> tag
    • <ds:X509Certificate> under <md:SPSSODescriptor> tag
    • Location under <md:SingleLogoutService> tag
    • Location under <md:AssertionConsumerService> tag
    • attributes names under <md:AttributeConsumingService> tags

    to register you authentication proxy on

    https://idp.spid.gov.it:8080
    
  5. Open the URL

    https://<SERVER_NAME>/access
    

    and click on

    Test on /whoami (lucia/password123)

    It starts an authentication process that will end on /whoami endpoint where all the information about the authentication will be dumped.

How to use it in production-like environment

  1. Create a directory to store SAML certificates and another to store log files

    $ mkdir -vp \
        /opt/authproxy/certs/{saml,tls} \
        /opt/authproxy/log/{httpd,shibboleth,shibboleth-www}
    
  2. Create/Obtain X509 certificates for TLS and SAML signatures and store them as follows

    /opt/authproxy/certs
    ├── saml
    │   ├── sp-cert.pem
    │   ├── sp-key.pem
    │   ├── sp-meta-cert.pem
    │   └── sp-meta-key.pem
    └── tls
        ├── server.crt
        └── server.key
    
  3. Create a docker compose file as follows. Be sure to set environment variables to values reflecting your real environment.

    version: '3'
    
    services:
      authproxy:
        image: spid-auth-proxy
        build:
          context: .
          dockerfile: Dockerfile
        ports:
          - '80:80'
          - '443:443'
        volumes:
          - '/opt/authproxy/certs/saml:/opt/shibboleth-sp/certs:ro'
          - '/opt/authproxy/certs/tls/server.crt:/etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt:ro'
          - '/opt/authproxy/certs/tls/server.key:/etc/pki/tls/private/server.key:ro'
          - '/opt/authproxy/log:/var/log'
        environment:
          MODE: 'prod'
          ORGANIZATION: 'My eGov Service'
          SERVER_NAME: 'my.auth.proxy.com'
          ERROR_URL: 'https://my.auth.proxy.com/error'
          ENTITY_ID: 'https://my.auth.proxy.com'
          TARGET_BACKEND: 'https://mytargetapp.my.cloud.provider.com'
          TARGET_LOCATION: '/login'
          ACS_INDEXES: '1;2'
          ACS_1_LABEL: 'set 1'
          ACS_1_ATTRS: 'name;familyName;fiscalNumber;email'
          ACS_2_LABEL: 'set 2'
          ACS_2_ATTRS: 'spidCode;fiscalNumber'

    Be sure that MODE envvar is set to prod.

    The URL specified in ERROR_URL should be an endpoint that is able to manage errors as mentioned in

    https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPErrors#NativeSPErrors-Redirection
    
  4. If necessary, revise the httpd configuration files under etc/httpd/conf.d in order to fit with your requirements

  5. Execute the Docker environmnet with the following command

    $ docker-compose up --build
    
  6. Register your authentication proxy on the IdP by providing the information contained at

    https://<SERVER_NAME>/metadata
    
  7. In order to use the authentication proxy, you application should initialise the the authentication by calling

    https://<SERVER_NAME>/iam/Login?target=https://<SERVER_NAME>/login&entityID=<IDP ENTITY_ID>
    

    Once authenticated, the callback (/login) will proxy the response to your backend (TARGET_BACKEND) by including within the request headers the authentication result.

How to define AttributeConsumingService elements

The AttributeConsumingService (ACS) elements can be defined by using a set of properly named environment variables.

Firstly, you have to declare the indexes of your ACSs by defining the ACS_INDEXES variable with all the indexes separated by a ;.

Then, for each ACS, you have to define the label with ACS_<INDEX>_LABEL and the list of the attributes with ACS_<INDEX>_ATTRS. The attributes must be specified as ; separated list.

For instance, to the define two ACSs (with index 1 and 27) where the first includes the attributes spidCode and fiscalNumber while the latter name and placeOfBirth, the environment variables must be defined and set as follows

environment:
  ACS_INDEXES: '1;27'
  ACS_1_LABEL: 'My First Set'
  ACS_1_ATTRS: 'spidCode;fiscalNumber'
  ACS_27_LABEL: 'My Second Set'
  ACS_27_ATTRS: 'name;placeOfBirth'

The ACS_* environment variables are also used to configure the AttributeChecker handler. The environment variables of the example will generate the following configuration (nested in the resulting /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml)

<!-- Check the returned attributes -->
<Handler type="AttributeChecker" Location="/AttrChecker" template="attrChecker.html" flushSession="true">
    <AND>
        <OR>
            <Rule require="authnContextClassRef">https://www.spid.gov.it/SpidL1</Rule>
            <Rule require="authnContextClassRef">https://www.spid.gov.it/SpidL2</Rule>
            <Rule require="authnContextClassRef">https://www.spid.gov.it/SpidL3</Rule>
        </OR>
        <OR>
            <!-- Check AttributeConsumingService with index 1 -->
            <AND>
                <AND>
                    <Rule require="SPIDCODE"/>
                    <Rule require="FISCALNUMBER"/>
                </AND>
                <AND>
                    <NOT><Rule require="ADDRESS"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="COMPANYNAME"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="COUNTYOFBIRTH"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="DATEOFBIRTH"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="DIGITALADDRESS"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="EMAIL"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="EXPIRATIONDATE"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="FAMILYNAME"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="GENDER"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="IDCARD"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="IVACODE"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="MOBILEPHONE"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="NAME"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="PLACEOFBIRTH"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="REGISTEREDOFFICE"/></NOT>
                </AND>
            </AND>
            <!-- Check AttributeConsumingService with index 27 -->
            <AND>
                <AND>
                    <Rule require="NAME"/>
                    <Rule require="PLACEOFBIRTH"/>
                </AND>
                <AND>
                    <NOT><Rule require="ADDRESS"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="COMPANYNAME"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="COUNTYOFBIRTH"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="DATEOFBIRTH"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="DIGITALADDRESS"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="EMAIL"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="EXPIRATIONDATE"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="FAMILYNAME"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="FISCALNUMBER"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="GENDER"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="IDCARD"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="IVACODE"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="MOBILEPHONE"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="REGISTEREDOFFICE"/></NOT>
                    <NOT><Rule require="SPIDCODE"/></NOT>
                </AND>
            </AND>
        </OR>
    </AND>
</Handler>

Furthermore, ACS_* variables are used to generate SessionInitiator elements. The environment variables of the example will generate the following configuration (nested in the resulting /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml)

<!-- SessionInitiator for AttributeConsumingService 0 -->
<SessionInitiator type="SAML2"
    Location="/Login0"
    isDefault="true"
    entityID="https://sp.example.com"
    outgoingBinding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:profiles:SSO:request-init"
    isPassive="false"
    signing="true">
    <samlp:AuthnRequest xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol"
        xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"
        Version="2.0" ID="placeholder0.example.com" IssueInstant="1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
        AttributeConsumingServiceIndex="0" ForceAuthn="true">
        <saml:Issuer
            Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:entity"
            NameQualifier="https://sp.example.com">
            https://sp.example.com
        </saml:Issuer>
        <samlp:NameIDPolicy
            Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient"
        />
    </samlp:AuthnRequest>
</SessionInitiator>

<!-- SessionInitiator for AttributeConsumingService 27 -->
<SessionInitiator type="SAML2"
    Location="/Login27"
    isDefault="true"
    entityID="https://sp.example.com"
    outgoingBinding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:profiles:SSO:request-init"
    isPassive="false"
    signing="true">
    <samlp:AuthnRequest xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol"
        xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion"
        Version="2.0" ID="placeholder27.example.com" IssueInstant="1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
        AttributeConsumingServiceIndex="27" ForceAuthn="true">
        <saml:Issuer
            Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:entity"
            NameQualifier="https://sp.example.com">
            https://sp.example.com
        </saml:Issuer>
        <samlp:NameIDPolicy
            Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient"
        />
    </samlp:AuthnRequest>
</SessionInitiator>

With this mechanism, you can dynamically specify the AttributeConsumingService by using the URLs /iam/Login0, /iam/Login27 and so on. For instance

https://sp.example.com/iam/Login0?target=https://sp.example.com/login&entityID=https://idp.spid.gov.it
                           ^^^^^^