[openstack-dev] [Keystone] [Horizon] Federated Login
David Chadwick
d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk
Sat Aug 8 14:29:49 UTC 2015
Hi Jamie
nice presentation, thanks for sharing it. I have forwarded it to my
students working on federation aspects of Horizon.
About public federated cloud access, the way you envisage it, i.e. that
every user will have his own tailored (subdomain) URL to the SP is not
how it works in the real world today. SPs typically provide one URL,
which everyone from every IdP uses, so that no matter which browser you
are using, from wherever you are in the world, you can access the SP
(via your IdP). The only thing the user needs to know, is the name of
his IdP, in order to correctly choose it.
So discovery of all available IdPs is needed. You are correct in saying
that Shib supports a separate discovery service (WAYF), but Horizon can
also play this role, by listing the IdPs for the user. This is the mod
that my student is making to Horizon, by adding type ahead searching.
About your proposed discovery mod, surely this seems to be going in the
wrong direction. A common entry point to Keystone for all IdPs, as we
have now with WebSSO, seems to be preferable to separate entry points
per IdP. Which high street shop has separate doors for each user? Or
have I misunderstood the purpose of your mod?
regards
David
On 07/08/2015 01:29, Jamie Lennox wrote:
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> *From: *"Dolph Mathews" <dolph.mathews at gmail.com>
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> *Sent: *Friday, August 7, 2015 9:09:25 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [openstack-dev] [Keystone] [Horizon] Federated Login
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Lance Bragstad <lbragstad at gmail.com
> <mailto:lbragstad at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Dolph Mathews
> <dolph.mathews at gmail.com <mailto:dolph.mathews at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Jamie Lennox
> <jamielennox at redhat.com <mailto:jamielennox at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Lyle" <dklyle0 at gmail.com <mailto:dklyle0 at gmail.com>>
> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 5:52:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Keystone] [Horizon] Federated Login
> >
> > Forcing Horizon to duplicate Keystone settings just makes everything much
> > harder to configure and much more fragile. Exposing whitelisted, or all,
> > IdPs makes much more sense.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Dolph Mathews < dolph.mathews at gmail.com <mailto:dolph.mathews at gmail.com> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Steve Martinelli < stevemar at ca.ibm.com <mailto:stevemar at ca.ibm.com> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Some folks said that they'd prefer not to list all associated idps, which i
> > can understand.
> > Why?
>
> So the case i heard and i think is fairly reasonable is
> providing corporate logins to a public cloud. Taking the
> canonical coke/pepsi example if i'm coke, i get asked to
> login to this public cloud i then have to scroll though
> all the providers to find the COKE.COM <http://COKE.COM>
> domain and i can see for example that PEPSI.COM
> <http://PEPSI.COM> is also providing logins to this
> cloud. Ignoring the corporate privacy implications this
> list has the potential to get long. Think about for
> example how you can do a corporate login to gmail, you
> certainly don't pick from a list of auth providers for
> gmail - there would be thousands.
>
> My understanding of the usage then would be that coke
> would have been provided a (possibly branded) dedicated
> horizon that backed onto a public cloud and that i could
> then from horizon say that it's only allowed access to
> the COKE.COM <http://COKE.COM> domain (because the UX
> for inputting a domain at login is not great so per
> customer dashboards i think make sense) and that for
> this instance of horizon i want to show the 3 or 4 login
> providers that COKE.COM <http://COKE.COM> is going to allow.
>
> Anyway you want to list or whitelist that in keystone is
> going to involve some form of IdP tagging system where
> we have to say which set of idps we want in this case
> and i don't think we should.
>
>
> That all makes sense, and I was admittedly only thinking of
> the private cloud use case. So, I'd like to discuss the
> public and private use cases separately:
>
> In a public cloud, is there a real use case for revealing
> *any* IdPs publicly? If not, the entire list should be made
> "private" using policy.json, which we already support today.
>
>
> The user would be required to know the id of the IdP in which
> they want to federate with, right?
>
>
> As a federated end user in a public cloud, I'd be happy to have a
> custom URL / bookmark for my IdP / domain (like
> http://customer-x.cloud.example.com/ or
> http://cloud.example.com/customer-x) that I need to know to kickoff
> the correct federated handshake with my IdP using a single button
> press ("Login").
>
> I always envisioned the subdomain method. I would say no to listing
> IdPs, but it's not simply making the list private because you will still
> need to provide at least one IdP option manually in that horizon's
> local_settings and at which point you should just turn off listing
> because you know it's always going to get a 403. I'm not sure how this
> would be managed today because we have a single WebSSO entry point so
> you can't really specify the IdP you want from the login page, it's
> expected to have your own discovery page - hence the spec
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/199339/
>
>
> In a private cloud, is there a real use case for
> fine-grained public/private attributes per IdP? (The stated
> use case was for a public cloud.) It seems the default
> behavior should be that horizon fetches the entire list from
> keystone.
>
> I don't think so. I think privately you would list everything.
>
> I feel at this point I'm missing something obvious, so let me explain my
> understanding of the current flow.
>
> * From horizon you select federated provider, the key of this is a
> protocol name, eg saml.
> * On login you get redirected to:
> https://keystone.example.com:5000/v3/OS-FEDERATION/websso/saml
> (where saml is the protocol from above)
> * On this page if you are cern/kent and have hundreds of IdPs you show
> a discovery page to pick the one you want, and get redirected to the
> actual login page.
> * On returning to keystone from login you have the remote_url of the
> page you logged in with. Keystone consults the remote_id parameter
> of each idp and FROM THAT URL DETERMINES WHICH KEYSTONE IDP WE USE.
> * Keystone uses that idp, the protocol mentioned earlier, determines
> the mapping, and maps variables.
> * Keystone then redirects a new token back to horizon.
>
> For an example of this see the talk i did last weekend:
> https://youtu.be/YYzJdxI_g6g
>
> So as you might have seen from the CAPS there is currently no mechanism
> for django_openstack_auth to indicate to keystone which IdP the user
> selected from a drop down list, only a protocol. I find this absurd and
> so wrote a spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/199339/
>
> I agree otherwise on the basics of this thread. I'm just haven't seen a
> plan yet on how anyone expects to implement this horizon based selection
> with the current implementation.
>
>
>
> @David - when you add a new IdP to the university
> network are you having to provide a new mapping each
> time? I know the CERN answer to this with websso was to
> essentially group many IdPs behind the same keystone idp
> because they will all produce the same assertion values
> and consume the same mapping.
>
> Maybe the answer here is to provide the option in
> django_openstack_auth, a plugin (again) of fetch from
> keystone, fixed list in settings or let it point at a
> custom text file/url that is maintained by the deployer.
> Honestly if you're adding and removing idps this
> frequently i don't mind making the deployer maintain
> some of this information out of scope of keystone.
>
>
> Jamie
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Actually, I like jamie's suggestion of just making horizon a bit smarter, and
> > expecting the values in the horizon settings (idp+protocol)
> > But, it's already in keystone.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve Martinelli
> > OpenStack Keystone Core
> >
> > Dolph Mathews ---2015/08/05 01:38:09 PM---On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:39 AM,
> > David Chadwick < d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk <mailto:d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > From: Dolph Mathews < dolph.mathews at gmail.com <mailto:dolph.mathews at gmail.com> >
> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> > openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org> >
> > Date: 2015/08/05 01:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Keystone] [Horizon] Federated Login
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:39 AM, David Chadwick <
> d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk <mailto:d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 04/08/2015 18:59, Steve Martinelli wrote: > Right,
> but that API is/should
> > be protected. If we want to list IdPs > *before*
> authenticating a user, we
> > either need: 1) a new API for listing > public IdPs or
> 2) a new policy that
> > doesn't protect that API. Hi Steve yes this was my
> understanding of the
> > discussion that took place many months ago. I had
> assumed (wrongly) that
> > something had been done about it, but I guess from
> your message that we are
> > no further forward on this Actually 2) above might be
> better reworded as - a
> > new policy/engine that allows public access to be a
> bona fide policy rule
> > The existing policy simply seems wrong. Why protect
> the list of IdPs?
> >
> >
> > regards David > > Thanks, > > Steve Martinelli >
> OpenStack Keystone Core > >
> > Inactive hide details for Lance Bragstad ---2015/08/04
> 01:49:29 PM---On >
> > Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Douglas Fish
> <drfish at us.iLance Bragstad >
> > ---2015/08/04 01:49:29 PM---On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at
> 10:52 AM, Douglas > Fish
> > < drfish at us.ibm.com <mailto:drfish at us.ibm.com> >
> wrote: > Hi David, > > From: Lance Bragstad <
> > lbragstad at gmail.com <mailto:lbragstad at gmail.com> > >
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for
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> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> <mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org> > > Date:
> 2015/08/04
> > 01:49 PM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Keystone]
> [Horizon] Federated Login
> > > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Douglas Fish
> > <_drfish at us.ibm.com_ > <mailto: drfish at us.ibm.com
> <mailto:drfish at us.ibm.com> >> wrote: > > Hi David, >
> > > This is a cool looking UI. I've made a minor comment
> on it in InVision. >
> > > I'm curious if this is an implementable idea - does
> keystone support >
> > large > numbers of 3rd party idps? is there an API to
> retreive the list of >
> > idps or > does this require carefully coordinated
> configuration between >
> > Horizon and > Keystone so they both recognize the same
> list of idps? > > >
> > There is an API call for getting a list of Identity
> Providers from Keystone
> > > > _
> >
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/keystone-specs/api/v3/identity-api-v3-os-federation-ext.html#list-identity-providers_
> > > > > > Doug Fish > > > David Chadwick
> <_d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk_ > <mailto:
> > d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk
> <mailto:d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk> >> wrote on 08/01/2015
> 06:01:48 AM: > > > From:
> > David Chadwick <_d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk_ > <mailto:
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> > Subject: [openstack-dev] [Keystone] [Horizon]
> Federated Login > > > > Hi
> > Everyone > > > > I have a student building a GUI for
> federated login with
> > Horizon. The > > interface supports both a drop down
> list of configured
> > IDPs, and also > > Type Ahead for massive federations
> with hundreds of IdPs.
> > Screenshots > > are visible in InVision here > > > > _
> > https://invis.io/HQ3QN2123_ > > > > All comments on
> the design are
> > appreciated. You can make them directly > > to the
> screens via InVision > >
> > > > Regards > > > > David > > > > > > > > >
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