This is my scenario:
1) Web Application - adfs01.domainA.local/app/default.aspx - DomainA - (sets as Relying Party on ADFS01)
2) ADFS01 - adfs01.domainA.local - DomainA - (sets as Relying Party on ADFS02)
3) ADFS02 - adfs02.domainB.local - DomainB - (sets as Claim Provider on ADFS01)
I developed the step 1 and 2 following the instructions described on TechNet article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/adfs2-federation-wif-application-step-by-step-guide(v=ws.10).aspx)
Aftewards I decided to add a new ADFS server (ADFS02) as Identity Provider and trusted it with ADFS01 then I tried to connect to web application with a DomainB's user (eg. domainB\user) logged in a DomainB's workstation.
In this way the web application redirects the browser to ADFS01 and it asks me username and password (in my case with the form).
Why does ADFS01 ask me the credential, instead of redirect the browser to ADFS02 to retrieve the token and authenticate me on Web Application publish on DomainA? Depend of application or ADFS01 configuration?
Please help me!
Thanks
Clear all your cookies. Then you will get a Home Realm Discovery screen which will ask you which ADFS you want to authenticate against.
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Most IDAM servers (Identity Server 4, Gluu, Cloud services) provide a way to host a login UI on the actually identity server. This login page can be customized so that it can be branded like your website. This works well for security flows so when you reach an authorization end-point you are redirected to your identityserver/login page.
But can you host the login page on the client application instead?
And if so:
Is this advisable?
Is this more/less secure than hosting the login UI on the Identity Server?
Would this break security flow standards like OIDC / Auth 2.0 authorization code flow?
Would this simply call an API to authenticate against? e.g. one that is hosted on the identity
server. Some appear to support this, but this seems a bit old / insecure compared to existing security flows.
Thanks.
Not really: the point of (federated) Single Sign On (SSO) is that one can use a single credential to login across different domains without divulging that credential to every domain/application.
Users use those credentials in one place against one server only to a trusted party aka. the Identity Provider. The Identity Provider then creates a derived token that is consumed by the 3rd-party application because the latter trusts the former to do so.
In case all applications belong to the same domain as the Identity Provider, the argument above no longer holds, but not using SSO would still mean that you'd have to login to each application separately, one by one.
With the use of IdentityServer4 and the OIDC protocol, I've managed to get my SPA and my .net core web api authenticating against a sql server user store, as well as ADFS which is great. However, when the user first clicks the 'Continue with ADFS' button, the login prompt is shown asking the user for their credentials. My understanding was that with the use of openId connect and IdentityServer, we could add external identity providers such as ADFS to our IdentityServer application and if ADFS is chosen for login with the user already logged in to ADFS via their local machine, then the authentication would happen seamlessly without the need to input windows user credentials again. There are other steps in order to achieve this of course, like linking the ADFS UserId with our SQL Database User Id table, but overall my understanding was that this would be entirely possible.
After a user logs out from an ADFS login, the next time the user chooses to log back in with ADFS, the 'Challenge' method that is run within my IdentityServer application to initiate the redirect to ADFS often recognises that the user has already logged in recently and therefore just logs them right in without the need for their credentials again.
My question is - is it actually possible to avoid the initial login prompt altogether? Or will the browser insist that credentials are provided if the user hasn't logged into the application for a while?
It certainly is possible but it may involve specific browser config in ADFS and also may require your IDP to be in the intranet zone in Windows Internet settings.
Check out these articles:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/operations/configure-intranet-forms-based-authentication-for-devices-that-do-not-support-wia
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/operations/configure-ad-fs-browser-wia
I'm developing an Enterprise/Internet Application with WebAPI 2 RESTful server and SPA web client (Angular2) —So I have two separated projects created using ASP.NET 4.6 Empty template and both use OWIN and are IIS hosted.
The requirement for Authentication is:
Active Directory user which is logged in to the workstation will authenticated automatically once she opens any page from app in the browser if user id/name found in the database, with no need to enter her user/pass. Let name this as auto-login. Else if it's not found in the DB it will redirected to the login page.
Also there should be a logout option which redirects user to the login page after logging she out.
In the login page any AD user can enter her/his AD user&pass and after successful check against database (existed) and AD (valid credential) she/he will logged in to the system (Obviously it may be different than user currently is logged in to the workstation)
In addition to the web client it will have other clients such mobile apps which will connect and be served by the WebAPI back-end. Users will login there using their AD user & pass too. Let name it manual-login.
According to the REST architecture and having both AD enterprise and internet/mobile users together, the authentication should be token based —this is what I found till now but I'm not sure.
I read about OWIN Authentication architecture and Windows Authentication and I checked MixedAuth, Now I think it is the nearest solution for this requirement as it lets app-defined users to authenticate side by side of windows/AD users. But even after dig into it and its SPA sample I didn't found my way yet and confused.
Anyone can help?
What should I actually do on the WebApi server and SPA Client to accomplish those authentication requirements?
Which middlewares should I add and how should config/manipulate them?
UseCookieAuthentication ?
UseExternalSignInCookie ?
UseOAuthBearerTokens ?
Can I rely just on Bearer tokens (using OAuthBearerTokens MW) and get same token for authenticated windows users to unify authentication model based on bearer tokens? If so, how?
How and where should I put my code for checking that AD user exists in the DB and if not so reject the authentication?
Thanks a lot.
Premise:
I have an infrastructure where we have a custom RP-STS implemented with Windows Identity Foundation, providing SSO for a few websites. This STS communicates with the sites via WSFederation. This custom STS is about to be deprecated because the organization is adding an Open ID Connect Idp into the infrastructure.
The websites themselves (Episerver) contain all the custom made authorization logic already based on the claims the STS provides, and if we were to simply toss the STS we'd have to replace all of this logic.
Question:
What is the browser redirect flow to integrate our RP-STS to the openId connect provider in such a way that the end user browser gets a session for both our RP STS and the Open Id Connect IdP?
Personal thinking on how it might be doable (based on massive assumptions on how openid connect works), skip this if you know how to answer:
Website sends HTTP post to RP-STS containing username/password
RP STS responds to browser with redirect to OpenId Connect Idp (Redirect contains username / password, and a replyto address is set to the RP STS)
OpenId Connect Idp creates a local session (???) and responds with a redirect to RP STS, redirect contains auth_token. (I'm unsure of the parts that go into an openid connect login flow)
RP STS receives user token and gets / asks for user data, builds claims and builds local session
RP STS sends claims in SAML token via WSFed to RP site
Am I even close?
Further clarification:
I do not want to remove the existing STS, but abstract the new infrastructure change behind it so that from the end-user-sites perspective, identity objects and authorization logic will remain unchanged.
I need help specifically in seeing if the login/logout flow is doable between the STS and the Open ID Connect IDP
WIF and OpenID Connect are completely different protocols e.g. WIF is mainly browser based in the passive profile. The token types are different - SAML and JWT etc.
The way to do this is via OWIN (Katana is the Microsoft implementation). There are NuGet packages for both WS-Fed and OpenID Connect.
There are samples available for Azure AD - refer Microsoft Azure Active Directory Samples and Documentation that you could use as a guide.
OWIN would allow you to use both protocols.
In fact, have a look at IdentityServer3.
This is an open source STS implementation of both.
Basically I just want to know how does StackExchange's single signon system work?
In the SE network you need to login only once in one of the websites to be automatically logged in to the other sites upon visiting.
How should I implement such a feature in my own network of sites?
I assume it uses the cookie which resides on the user's browser and then authenticates it with the originating site. If it is legit then it logs the user in automatically.
You have to implement SAML or oauth2 to allow sso on your network.
In case of SAML your child websites will be service providers or resource servers.
While you need to setup and identity provider.
The sequence of events will be like this.
1. User hits a url of songs website, this site is resource server and does not handle authentication.
2.To authenticate resource server will construct a SAML authrequest and redirects to identity provider after signing it.
Idp verifies the signature after receiving authrequest.
3. User will be presented with a login form, user has to end login credentials.
4. After user authentication idp will generate a SAMl token and redirect back to resource server.
5. Resource server will extract identity information from SAML token, resource server will login the user with session or cookie.
Depends upon which technology you are working in i have implemented it in php using simplesamlphp.