icingaweb2/doc/authentication.md

Authentication

Choosing the Authentication Method

With Icinga Web 2 you can authenticate against Active Directory, LDAP, a MySQL or a PostgreSQL database or delegate authentication to the web server.

Authentication methods can be chained to set up fallback authentication methods or if users are spread over multiple places.

Configuration

Authentication methods are configured in the INI file config/authentication.ini.

Each section in the authentication configuration represents a single authentication method.

The order of entries in the authentication configuration determines the order of the authentication methods. If the current authentication method errors or if the current authentication method does not know the account being authenticated, the next authentication method will be used.

External Authentication

For delegating authentication to the web server simply add autologin to your authentication configuration:

[autologin]
backend = external

If your web server is not configured for authentication though the autologin section has no effect.

Active Directory or LDAP Authentication

If you want to authenticate against Active Directory or LDAP, you have to define a LDAP resource which will be referenced as data source for the Active Directory or LDAP configuration method.

LDAP

Directive	Description
backend	ldap
resource	The name of the LDAP resource defined in resources.ini.
user_class	LDAP user class.
user_name_attribute	LDAP attribute which contains the username.
filter	LDAP search filter.

Example:

[auth_ldap]
backend             = ldap
resource            = my_ldap
user_class          = inetOrgPerson
user_name_attribute = uid
filter              = "memberOf=cn=icinga_users,cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=icinga,dc=org"

Note that in case the set user_name_attribute holds multiple values it is required that all of its values are unique. Additionally, a user will be logged in using the exact user id used to authenticate with Icinga Web 2 (e.g. an alias) no matter what the primary user id might actually be.

Active Directory

Directive	Description
backend	msldap
resource	The name of the LDAP resource defined in resources.ini.

Example:

[auth_ad]
backend  = msldap
resource = my_ad

Database Authentication

If you want to authenticate against a MySQL or a PostgreSQL database, you have to define a database resource which will be referenced as data source for the database authentication method.

Directive	Description
backend	db
resource	The name of the database resource defined in resources.ini.

Example:

[auth_db]
backend  = db
resource = icingaweb-mysql

Database Setup

For authenticating against a database, you have to import one of the following database schemas:

• etc/schema/preferences.mysql.sql (for MySQL database)
• etc/schema/preferences.pgsql.sql (for PostgreSQL databases)

After that you have to define the database resource.

Manually Creating Users

Icinga Web 2 uses the MD5 based BSD password algorithm. For generating a password hash, please use the following command:

openssl passwd -1 password

Note: The switch to openssl passwd is the number one (-1) for using the MD5 based BSD password algorithm.

Insert the user into the database using the generated password hash:

INSERT INTO icingaweb_user (name, active, password_hash) VALUES ('icingaadmin', 1, 'hash from openssl');