Is anyone using SAML for authentication? There is a feature request for SAML support on GitHub ( https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/3146), but it doesn't look like any work has been done. We need to add the ability for our users to authenticate with a SAML identity provider (IdP), in particular with InCommon/EduRoam/EduCause et al. Looking at the documentation there appears to be "the old way" (configuring Apache/Nginx to do the authentication) and "the new way" where Galaxy handles the authentication. Is it correct to assume that to use the new way I should implement an external authenticator, something like galaxy/auth/providers/saml.py and then some sort of magic to get a config/auth_conf.xml working? I just want to make sure I am heading down the correct path before investing too much time. - Keith Keith Suderman Research Associate Department of Computer Science Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY suderman@cs.vassar.edu
This all seems correct and I own you so many beers if you get this implemented! :) Am 27.02.2017 um 18:34 schrieb Keith Suderman:
Is anyone using SAML for authentication? There is a feature request for SAML support on GitHub ( https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/3146), but it doesn't look like any work has been done.
We need to add the ability for our users to authenticate with a SAML identity provider (IdP), in particular with InCommon/EduRoam/EduCause et al. Looking at the documentation there appears to be "the old way" (configuring Apache/Nginx to do the authentication) and "the new way" where Galaxy handles the authentication. Is it correct to assume that to use the new way I should implement an external authenticator, something like galaxy/auth/providers/saml.py and then some sort of magic to get a config/auth_conf.xml working?
I just want to make sure I am heading down the correct path before investing too much time.
- Keith
Keith Suderman Research Associate Department of Computer Science Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY suderman@cs.vassar.edu <mailto:suderman@cs.vassar.edu>
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Sadly, providing an authenticator in galaxy/auth/providers does not look like it will not work for SAML authentication since the authenticator is invoked after the user has already been prompted for a username and password. Rather it looks like I will need to use the approach used for OpenID authentication and described at https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Develop/Authentication Does the Galaxy team have any plans to modularize third-party authenticators such as OpenID, SAML, OAuth2 etc? If we do implement this it would be nice to do it in such a way that would help Galaxy move towards that goal. - Keith
On Feb 27, 2017, at 12:55 PM, Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
This all seems correct and I own you so many beers if you get this implemented! :)
Am 27.02.2017 um 18:34 schrieb Keith Suderman:
Is anyone using SAML for authentication? There is a feature request for SAML support on GitHub ( https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/3146), but it doesn't look like any work has been done.
We need to add the ability for our users to authenticate with a SAML identity provider (IdP), in particular with InCommon/EduRoam/EduCause et al. Looking at the documentation there appears to be "the old way" (configuring Apache/Nginx to do the authentication) and "the new way" where Galaxy handles the authentication. Is it correct to assume that to use the new way I should implement an external authenticator, something like galaxy/auth/providers/saml.py and then some sort of magic to get a config/auth_conf.xml working?
I just want to make sure I am heading down the correct path before investing too much time.
- Keith
Keith Suderman Research Associate Department of Computer Science Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY suderman@cs.vassar.edu <mailto:suderman@cs.vassar.edu>
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Keith, We use Shib/SAML here at UAB. (https://galaxy.uabgrid.uab.edu - no, you can't get in :( ) We currently do it the "old way" in Apache with mod_shib. We are planning an upgrade soon, sounds like the "old way" should still work until the new feature is implemented? In our case, we also have to manipulate the user string to strip off the @uab.edu as part of this processing. It would be great if that were a configurable part of an external authenticator, so we need to twiddle code locally for that. Regards, Curtis From: galaxy-dev [mailto:galaxy-dev-bounces@lists.galaxyproject.org] On Behalf Of Keith Suderman Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 11:34 AM To: Galaxy Dev List <galaxy-dev@lists.galaxyproject.org> Subject: [galaxy-dev] SAML Authentication Is anyone using SAML for authentication? There is a feature request for SAML support on GitHub ( https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/3146), but it doesn't look like any work has been done. We need to add the ability for our users to authenticate with a SAML identity provider (IdP), in particular with InCommon/EduRoam/EduCause et al. Looking at the documentation there appears to be "the old way" (configuring Apache/Nginx to do the authentication) and "the new way" where Galaxy handles the authentication. Is it correct to assume that to use the new way I should implement an external authenticator, something like galaxy/auth/providers/saml.py and then some sort of magic to get a config/auth_conf.xml working? I just want to make sure I am heading down the correct path before investing too much time. - Keith Keith Suderman Research Associate Department of Computer Science Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY suderman@cs.vassar.edu<mailto:suderman@cs.vassar.edu>
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