- Section about the case where the `principal` user property can't
be mapped.
- Section about when the IdP SAML metadata do not contain a
SingleSignOnService that supports HTTP-Redirect binding.
Co-Authored-By: Lisa Cawley <lcawley@elastic.co>
Co-Authored-By: Tim Vernum <tim@adjective.org>
This change adds documentation for the SAML APIs in Elasticsearch
and adds simple instructions on how these APIs can be used to
authenticate a user with SAML by a custom web application other
than Kibana.
Resolves: #40352
Since 7.3, it's possible to explicitly configure the SAML realm to
be used in Kibana's configuration. This in turn, eliminates the need
of properly setting `xpack.security.public.*` settings in Kibana
and largely simplifies relevant documentation.
This also changes `xpack.security.authProviders` to
`xpack.security.authc.providers` as the former was deprecated in
favor of the latter in 7.3 in Kibana
Explicitly call out the existence of the troubleshooting guide so
that hopefully users can solve common and easy problems with their
initial configuration
* This commit is part of our plan to deprecate and ultimately remove the use of _xpack in the REST APIs.
- REST API docs
- HLRC docs and doc tests
- Handle REST actions with deprecation warnings
- Changed endpoints in rest-api-spec and relevant file names
This moves all Realm settings to an Affix definition.
However, because different realm types define different settings
(potentially conflicting settings) this requires that the realm type
become part of the setting key.
Thus, we now need to define realm settings as:
xpack.security.authc.realms:
file.file1:
order: 0
native.native1:
order: 1
- This is a breaking change to realm config
- This is also a breaking change to custom security realms (SecurityExtension)
Authorization Realms allow an authenticating realm to delegate the task
of constructing a User object (with name, roles, etc) to one or more
other realms.
E.g. A client could authenticate using PKI, but then delegate to an LDAP
realm. The LDAP realm performs a "lookup" by principal, and then does
regular role-mapping from the discovered user.
This commit includes:
- authorization_realm support in the pki, ldap, saml & kerberos realms
- docs for authorization_realms
- checks that there are no "authorization chains"
(whereby "realm-a" delegates to "realm-b", but "realm-b" delegates to "realm-c")
Authorization realms is a platinum feature.
Add documentation for #31238
- Add documentation for the req_authn_context_class_ref setting
- Add a section in SAML Guide regarding the use of SAML
Authentication Context.
Lisa Cawley
Ioannis Kakavas
James Rodewig
Josh Soref
Ioannis Kakavas
Tim Vernum
Yuri Tceretian
Jason Tedor
Ryan Ernst