simplesamlphp Cookbook

Installs and configures a SimpleSAMLphp Service Provider.

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian / Ubuntu and derivatives

Chef

• Chef 12.5+

Attributes

These attributes need to be populated:
- simplesamlphp['idp']['metadata']['url'] - url to your identity providers metadata
- simplesamlphp['sp']['entityid'] - entity id of the service provider
- simplesamlphp['sp']['contact'] - support contact email

These attributes should be changed:
- simplesamlphp['sp']['salt'] - salt string used by SimpleSAMLphp to generate a secure hash of a value.

Data Bags

This cookbook will look for the following data bag keys in the sp data bag item within the simplesamlphp data bag:
- cert - generated certificate for SimpleSAMLphp environment
- idp-metadata - remote metadata for identity provider
This cookbook will look for the following data bag keys in the sp-secrets encrypted data bag item within the simplesamlphp data bag:
- key - generated private key for SimpleSAMLphp environment
- adminpw - password for the admin web interface

Attributes

• simplesamlphp['memcached']['enabled'] - defaults to true, php sessions will be used if this is disabled

• simplesamlphp['memcached']['search']['role'] - defaults to none, used to populate a list of memcache servers by searching nodes with the populated role

• simplesamlphp['installation']['path'] - defaults to /var/simplesamlphp, location of simplesamlphp install

• simplesamlphp['templates'] - defaults to this cookbook, custom templates from another cookbook can be used

• simplesamlphp['version'] - defaults to 1.14.14, if changed the checksum will need to be updated

• simplesamlphp['source']['url'] - defaults to simplesamlphp github download url

• simplesamlphp['source']['checksum'] - defaults to checksum for 1.14.14

• simplesamlphp['saml20']['enabled'] - defaults to true, the only supported functionality right now

• simplesamlphp['idp']['metadata']['url'] - needs to be updated with your idp metadata url

• simplesamlphp['sp']['enabled'] - defaults to true, includes the service provider recipe

• simplesamlphp['sp']['entityid'] - needs to be updated with your service provider entityid

• simplesamlphp['sp']['contact'] - needs to be updated with your support contact email

• simplesamlphp['sp']['salt'] - should be updated with a unique salt string

• simplesamlphp['sp']['privatekey']['data_bag'] - defaults to simplesamlphp

• simplesamlphp['sp']['privatekey']['path'] - defaults to cert directory within the simplesamlphp directory

• simplesamlphp['sp']['certificate']['data_bag'] - defaults to simplesamlphp

• simplesamlphp['sp']['certificate']['path'] = defaults to cert directory within the simplesamlphp directory

• simplesamlphp['sp']['attribute']['map']['custom'] - defaults to false, can be enabled to use custom attribute maps

• simplesamlphp['sp']['idp-metadata']['path'] - defaults to metadata directory within the simplesamlphp directory

• simplesamlphp['cookie']['name']['auth'] - defaults to SimpleSAMLAuthToken

• simplesamlphp['cookie']['name']['session'] - defaults to SimpleSAMLSessionID

• simplesamlphp['cookie']['name']['php']['session'] - defaults to SimpleSAMLPHPSessionID

• simplesamlphp['cookie']['lifetime']['session'] - defaults to 0 which lets the cookie live until the browser is closed

Usage

This cookbook can be used to setup a SimpleSAMLphp Service Provider. The session cache will default to a local memcache instance on the server if the simplesamlphp['memcached']['search']['role'] attribute is
left as the default value.

Generate certificate

This cookbook requires data bags that contain a self signed certificate and key.
They can be generated the following command:
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -new -x509 -days 3652 -nodes -out saml.crt -keyout saml.pem

License and Authors

Author:: Dustin Lactin (dustin.lactin@gmail.com)

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