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SAML 2.0 Authentication
Teleport Enterprise supports SAML 2.0 as an external identity provider and has been tested to work with Okta and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2016. Other identity providers, like Auth0, are known to work as well.
Okta
This guide will cover how to configure Teleport to authenticate users via SAML using Okta as a SAML provider.
Enable SAML Authentication
First, configure Teleport auth server to use SAML authentication instead of the local
user database. Update /etc/teleport.yaml as shown below and restart the
teleport daemon.
...
auth_service:
# Turns 'auth' role on. Default is 'yes'
enabled: yes
# defines the types and second factors the auth server supports
authentication:
type: saml
...
Configure Okta
First, create a SAML 2.0 Web App in Okta configuration section
Create Groups
We are going to create two groups: "okta-dev" and "okta-admin":
...and the admin:
Configure the App
We are going to map the Okta groups we've created above to the SAML Attribute statements (special signed metadata exposed via a SAML XML response).
GENERAL
-
Single sign on URL
https://teleport-proxy.example.com:3080/v1/webapi/saml/acs -
Audience URI (SP Entity ID)
https://teleport-proxy.example.com:3080/v1/webapi/saml/acs -
Name ID format
EmailAddress -
Application username
Okta username
GROUP ATTRIBUTE STATEMENTS
-
Name:
groups| Name format:Unspecified -
Filter:
Matches regex|.*
!!! tip "Important": Notice that we have set "NameID" to the email format and mappped the groups with a wildcard regex in the Group Attribute statements. We have also set the "Audience" and SSO URL to the same value.
Assign Groups
Assign groups and people to your SAML app:
Make sure to download the metadata in the form of an XML document. It will be used it to configure a Teleport connector:
Create a Teleport SAML Connector
Now, create a SAML connector resource:
# okta-connector.yaml
kind: saml
version: v2
metadata:
name: OktaSAML
spec:
# display allows to set the caption of the "login" button
# in the Web interface
display: "Login with Okta SSO"
acs: https://teleport-proxy.example.com:3080/v1/webapi/saml/acs
attributes_to_roles:
- {name: "groups", value: "okta-admin", roles: ["admin"]}
- {name: "groups", value: "okta-dev", roles: ["dev"]}
entity_descriptor: |
<paste SAML XML contents here>
Create the connector using tctl tool:
$ tctl create okta-connector.yaml
Create Teleport Roles
We are going to create 2 roles, privileged role admin who is able to login as root and is capable of administrating the cluster and non-privileged dev.
kind: "role"
version: "v3"
metadata:
name: "admin"
spec:
options:
max_session_ttl: "24h"
allow:
logins: [root]
node_labels:
"*": "*"
rules:
- resources: ["*"]
verbs: ["*"]
Devs are only allowed to login to nodes labelled with access: relaxed
teleport label. Developers can log in as either ubuntu to a username that
arrives in their assertions. Developers also do not have any rules needed to
obtain admin access.
kind: "role"
version: "v3"
metadata:
name: "dev"
spec:
options:
max_session_ttl: "24h"
allow:
logins: [ "{{external.username}}", ubuntu ]
node_labels:
access: relaxed
Notice: Replace ubuntu with linux login available on your servers!
$ tctl create admin.yaml
$ tctl create dev.yaml
Logging In
The Web UI will now contain a new button: "Login with Okta". The CLI is the same as before:
$ tsh --proxy=proxy.example.com login
This command will print the SSO login URL (and will try to open it automatically in a browser).
!!! tip "Tip":
Teleport can use multiple SAML connectors. In this case a connector name
can be passed via tsh login --auth=connector_name
!!! note "IMPORTANT": Teleport only supports sending party initiated flows for SAML 2.0. This means you can not initiate login from your identity provider, you have to initiate login from either the Teleport Web UI or CLI.
ADFS
ADFS Configuration
You'll need to configure ADFS to export claims about a user (Claims Provider Trust in ADFS terminology) and you'll need to configure AD FS to trust Teleport (a Relying Party Trust in ADFS terminology).
For Claims Provider Trust configuration you'll need to specify at least the
following two incoming claims: Name ID and Group. Name ID should be a
mapping of the LDAP Attribute E-Mail-Addresses to Name ID. A group
membership claim should be used to map users to roles (for example to
separate normal users and admins).
In addition if you are using dynamic roles (see below), it may be useful to map
the LDAP Attribute SAM-Account-Name to Windows account name and create
another mapping of E-Mail-Addresses to UPN.
You'll also need to create a Relying Party Trust, use the below information to
help guide you through the Wizard. Note, for development purposes we recommend
using https://localhost:3080/v1/webapi/saml/acs as the Assertion Consumer
Service (ACS) URL, but for production you'll want to change this to a domain
that can be accessed by other users as well.
- Create a claims aware trust.
- Enter data about the relying party manually.
- Set the display name to something along the lines of "Teleport".
- Skip the token encryption certificate.
- Select
Enable support for SAML 2.0 Web SSO protocoland set the URL tohttps://localhost:3080/v1/webapi/saml/acs. - Set the relying party trust identifier to
https://localhost:3080/v1/webapi/saml/acsas well. - For access control policy select
Permit everyone.
Once the Relying Party Trust has been created, update the Claim Issuance Policy
for it. Like before make sure you send at least Name ID and Group claims to the
relying party (Teleport). If you are using dynamic roles, it may be useful to
map the LDAP Attribute SAM-Account-Name to Windows account name and create
another mapping of E-Mail-Addresses to UPN.
Lastly, ensure the user you create in Active Directory has an email address
associated with it. To check this open Server Manager then
Tools -> Active Directory Users and Computers and select the user and right
click and open properties. Make sure the email address field is filled out.
Teleport Configuration
Lets create two Teleport roles: one for administrators and the other is for
normal users. You can create them using tctl create {file name} CLI command
or via the Web UI.
# admin-role.yaml
kind: "role"
version: "v3"
metadata:
name: "admin"
spec:
options:
max_session_ttl: "8h0m0s"
allow:
logins: [ root ]
node_labels:
"*": "*"
rules:
- resources: ["*"]
verbs: ["*"]
# user-role.yaml
kind: "role"
version: "v3"
metadata:
name: "dev"
spec:
options:
# regular users can only be guests and their certificates will have a TTL of 1 hour:
max_session_ttl: "1h"
allow:
# only allow login as either ubuntu or the username claim
logins: [ "{{external.username}}", ubuntu ]
Next create a SAML connector resource:
kind: saml
version: v2
metadata:
name: "adfs"
spec:
provider: "adfs"
acs: "https://localhost:3080/v1/webapi/saml/acs"
entity_descriptor_url: "https://adfs.example.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml"
attributes_to_roles:
- name: "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/Group"
value: "teleadmins"
roles: ["admins"]
- name: "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/Group"
value: "teleusers"
roles: ["users"]
The acs field should match the value you set in ADFS earlier and you can
obtain the entity_descriptor_url from ADFS under
AD FS -> Service -> Endpoints -> Metadata.
The attributes_to_roles is used to map attributes to the Teleport roles you
just creataed. In our situation, we are mapping the Group attribute whose full
name is http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/Group with a value of teleadmins
to the admin role. Groups with the value teleusers is being mapped to the
users role.
Exporting Signing Key
For the last step, you'll need to export the signing key:
$ tctl saml export adfs
Save the output to a file named saml.crt, return back to ADFS, open the
"Relying Party Trust" and add this file as one of the signature verification
certificates.
One Login
This guide will cover how to configure Teleport to authenticate users via SAML using One Login as a SAML provider.
Enable SAML Authentication
Configure Teleport auth server to use SAML authentication instead of the local
user database. Update /etc/teleport.yaml as shown below and restart the
teleport daemon.
...
auth_service:
# Turns 'auth' role on. Default is 'yes'
enabled: yes
# defines the types and second factors the auth server supports
authentication:
type: saml
...
Configure One Login Application
Create a SAML 2.0 Web App in SAML configuration section:
!!! tip "Important":
Make sure to pick SAML Test Connector (SP) and not SAML Test Connector (IdP),
because teleport only supports SP - service provider initiated SAML flows.
Configure the App
Set Audience, Recipient and ACS (Consumer) URL Validator to the same value:
https://teleport.example.com/v1/webapi/saml/acs where teleport.example.com is the
public name of the teleport web proxy service:
Teleport needs to assign groups to users. Configure the application with some parameters exposed as SAML attribute statements:
!!! tip "Important":
Make sure to check Include in SAML assertion checkbox.
Add users to the application:
Create a Teleport SAML Connector
Now, create a SAML connector resource.
Write down this template as onelogin-connector.yaml:
kind: saml
version: v2
metadata:
name: OneLogin
namespace: default
spec:
acs: https://teleport.example.com/v1/webapi/saml/acs
attributes_to_roles:
- {name: "groups", value: "admin", roles: ["admin"]}
- {name: "groups", value: "dev", roles: ["dev"]}
display: OneLogin
issuer: https://app.onelogin.com/saml/metadata/123456
sso: https://mycompany.onelogin.com/trust/saml2/http-redirect/sso/123456
cert: |
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
... do not forget to indent the value
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
To fill in the fields, open SSO tab:
acs- is the name of the teleport web proxy, e.g.https://teleport.example.com/v1/webapi/saml/acsissuer- use value fromIssuer URL field, e.g.https://app.onelogin.com/saml/metadata/123456sso- use the value from the value from fieldSAML 2.0 Endpoint (HTTP)but replacehttp-postwithhttp-redirect, e.g.https://mycompany.onelogin.com/trust/saml2/http-redirect/sso/123456
!!! tip "Important":
Make sure to replace http-post with http-redirect!
cert- download certificate, by clicking "view details link" and add tocertsection
Create the connector using tctl tool:
$ tctl create onelogin-connector.yaml
Create Teleport Roles
We are going to create 2 roles, privileged role admin who is able to login as root and is capable of administrating the cluster and non-privileged dev.
kind: "role"
version: "v3"
metadata:
name: "admin"
spec:
options:
max_session_ttl: "24h"
allow:
logins: [root]
node_labels:
"*": "*"
rules:
- resources: ["*"]
verbs: ["*"]
Devs are only allowed to login to nodes labelled with access: relaxed
teleport label. Developers can log in as either ubuntu to a username that
arrives in their assertions. Developers also do not have any rules needed to
obtain admin access.
kind: "role"
version: "v3"
metadata:
name: "dev"
spec:
options:
max_session_ttl: "24h"
allow:
logins: [ "{{external.username}}", ubuntu ]
node_labels:
access: relaxed
Notice: Replace ubuntu with linux login available on your servers!
$ tctl create admin.yaml
$ tctl create dev.yaml
Logging In
The Web UI will now contain a new button: "Login with OneLogin". The CLI is the same as before:
$ tsh --proxy=proxy.example.com login
This command will print the SSO login URL (and will try to open it automatically in a browser).
!!! tip "Tip":
Teleport can use multiple SAML connectors. In this case a connector name
can be passed via tsh login --auth=connector_name
!!! note "IMPORTANT": Teleport only supports sending party initiated flows for SAML 2.0. This means you can not initiate login from your identity provider, you have to initiate login from either the Teleport Web UI or CLI.

















