Psono Documentation

# Google Identity as IDP for OIDC-SSO

To set up the IDP you need access to the Google Cloud Console to create a new project and OAuth client credentials.

# Preamble

The Enterprise Edition (EE) server and client support the OIDC protocol that allows you to configure an external service as IDP (identity provider) for SSO (single sign on). This guide here will explain how to configure Google Identity as OIDC-IDP for SSO. We assume that:

  • your webclient can be accessed on https://psono.example.com
  • the server is reachable at https://psono.example.com/server (e.g. https://psono.example.com/server/info/ shows you some nice json output).

This is your first OIDC provider that you want to configure (therefore we give it the ID "1").

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This feature is only available in the Enterprise Edition.

# Google Identity

  1. Navigate to your Google Cloud Console (opens new window)

  2. Create a new project

    Create Google Cloud project

  3. Navigate to APIs & Services -> Oauth Consent Screen

  4. Configure OAuth consent screen and set it to "internal"

    Set OAuth consent screen to internal

  5. Go to credentials

  6. Create a new OAuth client ID

    Create new OAUTH client ID

  7. Configure credentials

    Configure the credentials as "Web application" with https://psono.example.com/server/oidc/<provider_id>/callback/ (adjust accordingly) as redirect URI Configure credentials

    Note down the client id and client secret, as you will need them in the next step.

for more information check Google's OpenID Connect documentation (opens new window)

# Server (settings.yaml)

After setting up the IDP for the OIDC-Authentication it is time to configure your running Psono server to act as the SP. It is required that Psono can reach google and vise versa.

Edit the settings.yml like so:

# Make sure the 'OIDC'-entry is present in the following list
AUTHENTICATION_METHODS: ['OIDC']
# https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
OIDC_CONFIGURATIONS:
    1:
        OIDC_RP_SIGN_ALGO: 'RS256'
        OIDC_RP_CLIENT_ID: 'xxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com'
        OIDC_RP_CLIENT_SECRET: 'xxxxxxx'
        OIDC_OP_JWKS_ENDPOINT: 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/certs'
        OIDC_OP_AUTHORIZATION_ENDPOINT: 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth'
        OIDC_OP_TOKEN_ENDPOINT: 'https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token'
        OIDC_OP_USER_ENDPOINT: 'https://openidconnect.googleapis.com/v1/userinfo'
        OIDC_USERNAME_ATTRIBUTE: 'email'
        AUTOPROVISION_PSONO_GROUP: False
        FORCE_MEMBERSHIP_OF_AUTOPROVISIONED_GROUPS: False
        AUTOPROVISION_PSONO_FOLDER: False
  • The google endpoints can be found on the ".well-known"-page (e.g. https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration) of your installation

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Always restart the server after making changes in the setting.yml-file.

# Client (config.json)

Now you have to configure your client, so your users can use this configured IDP.

  1. Basic

    Update your config.json similar to the one shown below.

    {
  ...
    "authentication_methods": ["OIDC"],
    "oidc_provider": [{
      "title": "OIDC Login",
      "provider_id": 1,
      "button_name": "Login "
    }]
  ...
}

    The variable authentication_methods restricts the allowed login methods. In the example above only OIDC will be allowed and the normal login "hidden". The title and button_name can be adjusted however you like. The provider_id needs to match the one that you used on your server.

  2. (optional) Automatic login

    You may want to "automatically" click on the login button to initiate the login flow. You can accomplish this by modifying the config.json as shown below:

    {
  ...
    "authentication_methods": ["OIDC"],
    "auto_login": true,
  ...
}

    WARNING

    This will only work if you have just one provider configured with only one authentication method. Users won't be able to modify the server url nor choose to register or interact with the login form in any other way.

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