Proof of concept OpenID Connect / OAuth server with ORY Hydra

The work on this project continues at https://code.cacert.org/cacert/oidc-parent and repositories referenced there.

This repository contains a proof of concept implementation for an identity provider and an application using OIDC. ORY Hydra is used for the actual OAuth2 / OpenID Connect operations. The implementation in this repository provides the UI components that are required by Hydra.

The code in this repository is licensed under the terms of the Apache License Version 2.0.

Copyright © 2020, 2021 Jan Dittberner

Setup

Certificates

You need a set of certificates for the IDP, the application and Hydra. You can use the Test CA created by the setup_test_ca.sh script from the CAcert developer setup repository like this:

1. create signing requests

   mkdir certs
   cd certs
   openssl req -new -newkey rsa:3072 -nodes \
       -keyout hydra.cacert.localhost.key \
       -out hydra.cacert.localhost.csr.pem \
       -subj /CN=hydra.cacert.localhost \
       -addext subjectAltName=DNS:hydra.cacert.localhost,DNS:auth.cacert.localhost
   openssl req -new -newkey rsa:3072 -nodes \
       -keyout idp.cacert.localhost.key \
       -out idp.cacert.localhost.csr.pem \
       -subj /CN=idp.cacert.localhost \
       -addext subjectAltName=DNS:idp.cacert.localhost,DNS:login.cacert.localhost,DNS:register.cacert.localhost
   openssl req -new -newkey rsa:3072 -nodes \
       -keyout app.cacert.localhost.key \
       -out app.cacert.localhost.csr.pem \
       -subj /CN=app.cacert.localhost \
       -addext subjectAltName=DNS:app.cacert.localhost
   cp *.csr.pem $PATH_TO_DEVSETUP_TESTCA/
   

2. Use the CA to sign the certificates

   pushd $PATH_TO_DEVSETUP_TESTCA/
   for csr in hydra idp app; do
       openssl ca -config ca.cnf -name class3_ca -extensions server_ext \
           -in ${csr}.cacert.localhost.csr.pem \
           -out ${csr}.cacert.localhost.crt.pem -days 365
   done
   popd
   cp $PATH_TO_DEVSETUP_TESTCA/{hydra,idp,app}.cacert.localhost.crt.pem .
   

3. Copy CA certificate for client certificates

   openssl x509 -in $PATH_TO_DEVSETUP_TESTCA/class3/ca.crt.pem \
       -out client_ca.pem
   

Setup Hydra

We use the ORY Hydra OAuth2 / OpenID Connect implementation. Install Hydra according to their documentation. The setup has been tested with the Linux binary installation.

Perform the Hydra database setup:

sudo -i -u postgres psql
> CREATE DATABASE hydra_local ENCODING utf-8;
> CREATE USER hydra_local WITH PASSWORD '${YOUR_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD}';
> GRANT CONNECT, CREATE ON DATABASE hydra_local TO hydra_local;

hydra migrate sql "postgres://hydra_local:${YOUR_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD}@localhost:5432/hydra_local"

Create a configuration file for Hydra i.e. hydra.yaml:

serve:
  admin:
    host: hydra.cacert.localhost
  public:
    host: auth.cacert.localhost
  tls:
    cert:
      path: certs/hydra.cacert.localhost.crt.pem
    key:
      path: certs/hydra.cacert.localhost.key
  dsn: 'postgres://hydra_local:${YOUR_POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD}@localhost:5432/hydra_local'

webfinger:
  oidc_discovery:
    supported_claims:
      - email
      - email_verified
      - given_name
      - family_name
      - middle_name
      - name
      - birthdate
      - zoneinfo
      - locale
      - https://cacert.localhost/groups
    supported_scope:
      - profile
      - email

oauth2:
  expose_internal_errors: false

urls:
  login: https://login.cacert.localhost:3000/login
  consent: https://login.cacert.localhost:3000/consent
  logout: https://login.cacert.localhost:3000/logout
  error: https://login.cacert.localhost:3000/error
  post_logout_redirect: https://login.cacert.localhost:3000/logout-successful
  self:
    public: https://auth.cacert.localhost:4444/
    issuer: https://auth.cacert.localhost:4444/

secrets:
  system:
    - "${YOUR SECRET FOR HYDRA}"

The available configuration options are described in the Hydra configuration documentation.

Hydra needs to be able to resolve its hostnames and does not work with the systemd-nss module. You therefore need to define Hydra's hostnames in your /etc/hosts file:

::1 auth.cacert.localhost hydra.cacert.localhost

Add OpenID Connect configuration for a client

Create an OpenID Connect (OIDC) client configuration for the demo application

hydra clients create --endpoint https://hydra.cacert.localhost:4445/ \
    --callbacks https://app.cacert.localhost:4000/callback \
    --logo-uri https://register.cacert.localhost:3000/images/app.png \
    --name "Client App Demo" \
    --scope "openid offline_access profile email" \
    --post-logout-callbacks https://app.cacert.localhost:4000/after-logout \
    --client-uri https://register.cacert.localhost:3000/info/app

The command returns a client id and a client secret, that you need for the demo application configuration.

Configure IDP

The Identity Provider application (IDP) requires a strong random key for its CSRF cookie. You can generate such a key using the following openssl command:

openssl rand -base64 32

Use this value and the database credentials from your cacert-devsetup and create idp.toml:

[security]
csrf.key = "<32 bytes of base64 encoded data>"
  
[db]
dsn = "$MYSQL_USER:$MYSQL_PASSWORD@tcp(localhost:13306)/cacert

Configure the Demo Application

You will need a 32 byte and a 64 byte random secret for the session authentication and encryption keys:

openssl rand -base64 64
openssl rand -base64 32

You also need the client id and the client secret, that have been generated during the OIDC client setup described above.

[oidc]
client-id = "<client id from hydra clients invocation>"
client-secret = "<client secret from hydra clients invocation>"

[session]
auth-key = "<64 bytes of base64 encoded data>"
enc-key = "<32 bytes of base64 encoded data>"

Frontend resource build

The frontend resources are built using webpack 5 and yarn. You need recent nodejs and yarn versions. See the Debian installation instructions of nodesource or look at the other options on the nodejs Download page if you cannot use Debian Bullseye or newer.

When you are sure that you have nodejs >= 12 and yarn you can install the required dependencies and run webpack like this:

yarn
yarn run build

Start

Now you can start Hydra, the IDP and the demo app in 3 terminal windows:

hydra serve all --config hydra.yaml

go run cmd/idp/main.go

go run cmd/app/main.go

Visit https://app.cacert.localhost:4000/ in a Browser and you will be directed through the OpenID connect authorization code flow.

Translations

This application uses go-i18n for internationalization (i18n) support.

The translation workflow needs the go18n binary which can be installed via

go get -u  github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n/v2/goi18n

To extract new messages from the code run

goi18n extract .

Then use

goi18n merge active.*.toml

to create TOML files for translation as translate.<locale>.toml. After translating the messages run

goi18n merge active.*.toml translate.*.toml

to merge the messages back into the active translation files. To add a new language you need to add the language code to the languages configuration option (default is defined in the configmap in cmd/idp/main.go and cmd/app/main.go).