synapse-token-authenticator 0.6.0

Synapse authentication module which allows for authenticating and registering using JWTs

Synapse Token Authenticator

Synapse Token Authenticator is a synapse auth provider which allows for token authentication (and optional registration) using JWTs (Json Web Tokens) and OIDC.

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Table of Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
  • OAuthConfig
  • JwtValidationConfig
  • IntrospectionValidationConfig
  • NotifyOnRegistration
  • Path
  • BasicAuth
  • BearerAuth
  • HttpAuth
  • Validator
  • Exist
  • Not
  • Equal
  • MatchesRegex
  • AnyOf
  • AllOf
  • In
  • ListAllOf
  • ListAnyOf
• Usage
  • JWT Authentication
  • OIDC Authentication
• Testing
• Releasing
• License

Installation

pip install synapse-token-authenticator

Configuration

Here are the available configuration options:

jwt:
  # provide only one of secret, keyfile
  secret: symetrical secret
  keyfile: path to asymetrical keyfile

  # Algorithm of the tokens, defaults to HS512 (optional)
  algorithm: HS512
  # Allow registration of new users, defaults to false (optional)
  allow_registration: false
  # Require tokens to have an expiry set, defaults to true (optional)
  require_expiry: true
oidc:
  # Include trailing slash
  issuer: "https://idp.example.com/"
  client_id: "<IDP client id>"
  client_secret: "<IDP client secret>"
  # Zitadel Organization ID, used for masking. (Optional)
  organization_id: 1234
  # Zitadel Project ID, used for validating the audience of the returned token.
  project_id: 5678
  # Limits access to specified clients. Allows any client if not set (optional)
  allowed_client_ids: ['2897827328738@project_name']
  # Allow registration of new users, defaults to false (optional)
  allow_registration: false
oauth:
  # see OAuthConfig section

It is recommended to have require_expiry set to true (default). As for allow_registration, it depends on usecase: If you only want to be able to log in existing users, leave it at false (default). If nonexistant users should be simply registered upon hitting the login endpoint, set it to true.

OAuthConfig

Parameter	Type
jwt_validation	JwtValidationConfig (optional)
introspection_validation	IntrospectionValidationConfig (optional)
username_type	One of 'fq_uid', 'localpart', 'user_id' (optional)
notify_on_registration	NotifyOnRegistration (optional)
expose_metadata_resource	Any (optional)
registration_enabled	Bool (defaults to false)

At least one of jwt_validation or introspection_validation must be defined.

username_type specifies the role of identifier.user:

• 'fq_uid' — must be fully qualified username, e.g. @alice:example.test
• 'localpart' — must be localpart, e.g. alice
• 'user_id' — could be localpart or fully qualified username
• null — the username is ignored, it will be source from the token or introspection response

If notify_on_registration is set then notify_on_registration.url will be called when a new user is registered with this body:

{
    "localpart": "alice",
    "fully_qualified_uid": "@alice:example.test",
    "displayname": "Alice",
},

expose_metadata_resource must be an object with name field. The object will be exposed at /_famedly/login/{expose_metadata_resource.name}.

jwt_validation and introspection_validation contain a bunch of *_path optional fields. Each of these, if specified will be used to source either localpart, user id, or fully qualified user id from jwt claims and introspection response. They values are going to be compared for equality, if they differ, authentication would fail. Be careful with these, as it is possible to configure in such a way that authentication would always fail, or, if username_type is null, no user id data can be sourced, thus also leading to failure.

JwtValidationConfig

RFC 7519 - JSON Web Token (JWT)

Parameter	Type
validator	Validator (defaults to Exist)
require_expiry	Bool (defaults to false)
localpart_path	Path (optional)
user_id_path	Path (optional)
fq_uid_path	Path (optional)
displayname_path	Path (optional)
required_scopes	Space separated string or a list of strings (optional)
jwk_set	JWKSet or JWK (optional)
jwk_file	String (optional)

Either jwk_set or jwk_file must be specified.

IntrospectionValidationConfig

RFC 7662 - OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection

Parameter	Type
endpoint	String
validator	Validator (defaults to Exist)
auth	HttpAuth (optional)
localpart_path	Path (optional)
user_id_path	Path (optional)
fq_uid_path	Path (optional)
displayname_path	Path (optional)
required_scopes	Space separated string or a list of strings (optional)

Keep in mind, that default validator will always pass. According to the spec, you probably want at least

type: in
path: 'active'
validator:
  type: equal
  value: true

or

['in', 'active', ['equal', true]]

NotifyOnRegistration:

Parameter	Type
url	String
auth	HttpAuth (optional)
interrupt_on_error	Bool (defaults to true)

Path

A path is either a string or a list of strings. A path is used to get a value inside a nested dictionary/object.

Examples

• 'foo' is an existing path in {'foo': 3}, resulting in value 3
• ['foo'] is an existing path in {'foo': 3}, resulting in value 3
• ['foo', 'bar'] is an existing path in {'foo': {'bar': 3}}, resulting in value 3

BasicAuth

Parameter	Type
username	String
password	String

BearerAuth

Parameter	Type
token	String

HttpAuth

Authentication options, always optional

Parameter	Type
type	'basic' | 'bearer'

Possible options: BasicAuth, BearerAuth,

Validator

A validator is any of these types: Exist, Not, Equal, MatchesRegex, AnyOf, AllOf, In, ListAnyOf, ListAllOf

Each validator has type field

Exist

Validator that always returns true.

Examples

{'type': 'exist'}

or

['exist']

Not

Validator that inverses the result of the inner validator.

Parameter	Type
validator	Validator

Examples

{'type': 'not', 'validator': 'exist'}

or

['not', 'exist']

Equal

Validator that checks for equality with the specified constant.

Parameter	Type
value	Any

Examples

{'type': 'equal', 'value': 3}

or

['equal', 3]

MatchesRegex

Validator that checks if a value is a string and matches the specified regex.

Parameter	Type	Description
regex	str	Python regex syntax
full_match (optional, true by default)	bool	Full match or partial match

Examples

{'type': 'regex', 'regex': 'hello.'}

or

['regex', 'hello.', false]

AnyOf

Validator that checks if any of the inner validators pass.

Parameter	Type
validators	List of Validator

Examples

type: any_of
validators:
  - ['in', 'foo', ['equal', 3]]
  - ['in', 'bar' ['exist']]

or

['any_of', [['in', 'bar' ['exist']], ['in', 'foo', ['equal', 3]]]]

AllOf

Validator that checks if all of the inner validators pass.

Parameter	Type
validators	List of Validator

Examples

type: all_of
validators:
  - ['exist']
  - ['in', 'foo', ['equal', 3]]

or

['all_of', [['exist'], ['in', 'foo', ['equal', 3]]]]

In

Validator that modifies the context for the inner validator, going inside a dict key. If the validated object is not a dict, or doesn't have specified path, validation fails.

Parameter	Type
path	Path
validator	Validator (optional, defaults to Exist)

Examples

['in', ['foo', 'bar'], ['equal', 3]]

ListAllOf

Validator that checks if the value is a list and all of its elements satisfy the specified validator.

Parameter	Type
validator	Validator

Examples

type: list_all_of
validator:
  type: regex
  regex: 'ab..'

or

['list_all_of', ['regex', 'ab..']]

ListAnyOf

Validator that checks if the value is a list and if any of its elements satisfy the specified validator.

Parameter	Type
validator	Validator

Examples

type: list_all_of
validator:
  type: equal
  value: 3

or

['list_any_of', ['equal', 3]]

Usage

JWT Authentication

First you have to generate a JWT with the correct claims. The sub claim is the localpart or full mxid of the user you want to log in as. Be sure that the algorithm and secret match those of the configuration. An example of the claims is as follows:

{
  "sub": "alice",
  "exp": 1516239022
}

Next you need to post this token to the /login endpoint of synapse. Be sure that the type is com.famedly.login.token and that identifier.user is, again, either the localpart or the full mxid. For example the post body could look as following:

{
  "type": "com.famedly.login.token",
  "identifier": {
    "type": "m.id.user",
    "user": "alice"
  },
  "token": "<jwt here>"
}

OIDC Authentication

First, the user needs to obtain an Access token and an ID token from the IDP:

POST https://idp.example.org/oauth/v2/token

Next, the client needs to use these tokens and construct a payload to the login endpoint:

{
  "type": "com.famedly.login.token.oidc",
  "identifier": {
    "type": "m.id.user",
    "user": "alice" // The user's localpart, extracted from the localpart in the ID token returned by the IDP
  },
  "token": "<opaque access here>" // The access token returned by the IDP
}

Testing

The tests uses twisted's testing framework trial, with the development enviroment managed by hatch. Running the tests and generating a coverage report can be done like this:

hatch run cov

Releasing

After tagging a new version, manually create a Github release based on the tag. This will publish the package on PyPI.

License

synapse-token-authenticator is distributed under the terms of the AGPL-3.0 license.