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ASF subversion and git services commented on CLOUDSTACK-8462:
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Commit 389213e33a39895bc17892de0358bad9f47acf2c in cloudstack's branch 
refs/heads/saml-production-grade from [[email protected]]
[ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;h=389213e ]

CLOUDSTACK-8462: SAML Auth plugin should not do authorization

This removes logic to create user if they don't exist. This strictly now
assumes that users have been already created/imported/authorized by admins.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]>


> SAML: Auth plugin should handle authentication, admins to authorize users 
> before they can authenticated
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-8462
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8462
>             Project: CloudStack
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>      Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the 
> default.) 
>          Components: SAML
>            Reporter: Rohit Yadav
>            Assignee: Rohit Yadav
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: Future, 4.6.0, 4.5.2
>
>
> At the time of writing the auth plugin, I did not consider many security 
> issues. The current SAML2 auth plugin would automatically create users and 
> allow them inside CloudStack which in production could cause a severe 
> security issue, especially in environment with public IdP server infra such 
> as large institutions. Therefore, the idea is to let admin add/import users 
> manually or from LDAP and then allow them to be SAML authenticated. This 
> delegates the security issue and account creation/handling to the admin or 
> some other business layer/system.
> The following scenario would be supported:
> - Admin adds a user either manually or importing from LDAP etc.
> - Admin can then specify (multi-select or through API) a list of  one or more 
> users with their username (or any unique ID) to be allowed to be SAML 
> authenticated
> Assumption here is that every SAML authenticated user would have a unique 
> username mapped into CloudStack. Edge case handling: In case multiple users 
> exist in CloudStack with the same username (could be across domains) and if 
> the admin enables SAML authentication for all those user account, then the 
> plugin would assume all the users as the same and allowed by the SAML 
> authenticated user. Then, upon log in, the user should be able to 
> select/switch between all such accounts under any of the domains.



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