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reauth

Another authentication plugin for CaddyServer (v1)

For CaddyServer V2 Please caddy2-reauth

Contents

Abstract

Provides a common basis for various and multiple authentication systems. This came to be as we wanted to dynamically authenticate our docker registry against gitlab-ci and avoid storing credentials in gitlab while still permitting users to log in with their own credentials.

Supported backends

The following backends are supported.

With more to come...

Supported failure handlers

The following failure handlers are supported.

Configuration

The core of the plugin supports the following arguments:

Parameter-Name Description
path the path to protect, may be repeated but be aware of strange interactions with except (required)
except sub path to permit unrestricted access to (optional, can be repeated)
failure what to do on failure (see failure handlers, default is HTTPBasic)

Example:

	reauth {
		path /
		except /public
		except /not_so_secret
	}

Along with these two arguments you are required to specify at least one backend.

Spaces in configuration

Through experimentation by @mh720 (Mike Holloway) it has been discovered that if you need spaces in your configuration that the best bet is to use unicode escaping.

For example:

OU=GROUP\u0020NAME

I imagine this would allow you to escape any character you need this way including quotes.

Backends

Simple

This is the simplest plugin, taking just a list of username=password[,username=password].

Example:

	simple user1=password1,user2=password2

Upstream

Authentication against an upstream http server by performing a http basic authenticated request and checking the response for a http 200 OK status code. Anything other than a 200 OK status code will result in a failure to authenticate.

Parameters for this backend:

Parameter-Name Description
url http/https url to call
skipverify true to ignore TLS errors (optional, false by default)
timeout request timeout (optional 1m by default, go duration syntax is supported)
follow follow redirects (disabled by default as redirecting to a login page might cause a 200)
cookies true to pass cookies to the upstream server
match used with follow, match string against the redirect url, if found then not logged in

Examples

	upstream url=https://google.com,skipverify=true,timeout=5s
  upstream url=https://google.com,skipverify=true,timeout=5s,follow=true,match=login

Refresh

Authentication with Refresh Token against configurable endpoints with response caching and cache entry expiration times. If failure conditions in the configuration file are met a 401 is returned otherwise result will be successful. This module is designed to be used with the caddy-secrets plugin, a yaml file with a reauth object with an endpoints array will hold configurations for endpoints and how they work together for auth service.

Parameters for this backend:

Parameter-Name Description
url http/https url to call
skipverify true to ignore TLS errors (optional, false by default)
timeout request timeout (optional 1m by default, go duration syntax is supported)
follow follow redirects (disabled by default as redirecting to a login page might cause a 200)
cookies true to pass cookies to the upstream server
limit int to set response size limit for endpoint requests (default 1000)
lifetime time interval that a file cached by this module will remain valid (default 3 hours)
cleaninterval time interval to clean cache of expired entries (default 1 second)

Examples

  • Caddyfile
	refresh url=https://example.com,skipverify=true,timeout=5s,lifetime=3h,cleaninterval=1s,limit=1000
  • Secrets file
reauth:
  client_authorization: 1                             # authorization flag (required) - 0/1 whether to check for Authorization header, 2 will throw 500 if missing
                                                          Authorization access token stored in 'ResultsMap' under 'client_token' key
  endpoints                                           # endpoints array (required)
    - name: refresh                                   # endpoint of name 'refresh' (required)
      url: null                                       
      path: "/access_token"
      method: POST                                    # auth request method (required) - at the moment only POST and GET are handled (value must be in caps)
      data:                                           # data array (required)
        - key: grant_type
          value: refresh_token
        - key: refresh_token                          # object with 'refresh_token' key (required)
          value: <refresh token to get access token>  # value (required) - holds actual refresh token to request access token with
      cachekey: refresh_token
      headers:
        - key: Content-Type
          value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
      skipverify: true
      cookies: true
      responsekey: jwt_token
      failures:
        - validation: equality                        # there are 3 types of validation, 'equality' will have auth fail if
          key: message                                # response body value under failure object key equality failure object value
          value: Forbidden
          valuemessage: false
          message: "Refresh access token failed"
                                                      # access token is stored in 'ResultsMap' under 'refresh' key
                                                      
    - name: security_context                          # endpoint responses get stored in 'ResultsMap' under the name of the endpoint
      url: https://different.example.com              # url value should be set if endpoint uses different url than one in Caddyfile
      path: "/security_context"                       # path is concatenated after url for request 
      method: GET                                     # request method, GET will put data params in query, POST will encode form
      data:                                           # data needed for request
        - key: access_token
          value: "{client_token}"                     # surrounding keys with {}'s will have them replaced by values in 'ResultsMap'
      cachekey: client_token                          # cache entry key
      headers:                                        # keys and values to set on endpoint request headers
        - key: Authorization                          
          value: "Bearer {refresh}"                   # surrounding keys with {}'s will have them replaced by values in 'ResultsMap' 
      skipverify: true                                # whether endpoint request should use Caddyfile skipverify configuration
      cookies: true                                   # whether endpoint request should use Caddyfile cookies configuration
      responsekey: null                               # if set, the key will be used to pull value from endpoint response
      failures:
        - validation: presence                        # 'presence' validation will have auth fail if response body has failure object key
          key: error
          value: ~
          valuemessage: true                          # if valuemessage bool is true, response object value under failure object key
          message: "Security context error: "             is concatenated to failure message
        - validataion: status                         # 'status' validation will have auth fail if endpoint response status
          key: ~                                          matches failure object value
          value: 401
          valuemessage: false
          message: "Security context unauthorized"
  resultkey: security_context                         # last endpoint response stored in 'ResultsMap' is passed down caddy filter chain
                                                          in a query param with the key named after 'resultkey' value

GitlabCI

Authenticate against Gitlab as the gitlab-ci-user for the purposes of letting the gitlab-ci access otherwise protected resources without storing credentials in gitlab or gitlab-ci.yml. Works basically like the [Upstream]#upstream backend except the username you provide is the project path

Parameters for this backend:

Parameter-Name Description
url http/https url to call
skipverify true to ignore TLS errors (optional, false by default)
timeout request timeout (optional 1m by default, go duration syntax is supported)

Example

	gitlabci url=https://gitlab.example.com,skipverify=true,timeout=5s

Example of logging in via gitlab-ci.yml

	docker login docker.example.com -u "$CI_PROJECT_PATH" -p "$CI_BUILD_TOKEN"

LDAP

Authenticate against a specified LDAP server - for example a Microsoft AD server.

Parameters for this backend:

Parameter-Name Description
url url, required - i.e. ldap://ldap.example.com:389
tls should StartTLS be used? (default false)
username (read-only) bind username - i.e. ldap-auth
password the password for the bind username
insecure true to ignore TLS errors (optional, false by default)
timeout request timeout (optional 1m by default, go duration syntax is supported)
base Search base, for example "OU=Users,OU=Company,DC=example,DC=com"
filter Filter the users, eg "(&(memberOf=CN=group,OU=Users,OU=Company,DC=example,DC=com)(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=%s))"
principal_suffix suffix to append to usernames (eg: @example.com)
pool_size size of the connection pool, default is 10

Example

	ldap url=ldap://ldap.example.com:389,timeout=5s,base="OU=Users,OU=Company,DC=example,DC=com",filter="(&(memberOf=CN=group,OU=Users,OU=Company,DC=example,DC=com)(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=%s))"

Failure handlers

HTTPBasic

This is the default failure handler and is by default configured to send the requested host as the realm

Parameters for this handler:

Parameter-Name Description
realm name of the realm to authenticate against - defaults to host

Example

	failure  basicauth realm=example.org

Redirect

Redirect the user, perhaps to a login page?

Parameters for this handler:

Parameter-Name Description
target target url for the redirection, supports {uri} for redirection (required)
code the http status code to use, defaults to 302

Example

	failure redirect target=example.org,code=303

Example with uri

	failure redirect target=/auth?redir={uri},code=303

Status

Simplest possible failure handler, return http status $code

Parameters for this handler:

Parameter-Name Description
code the http status code to use, defaults to 401

Example

	failure status code=418

Todo

Modularise the failure handlers...

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