http authentication

[sborrill]

I'd like to have the option for using basic http authentication rather than form-based authentication with Xen Orchestra (while still using LDAP for the actual backend authentication). This would allow easy single-sign-on through NetScaler by publishing it as an intranet resource without requiring Advanced/Enterprise licencing for SAML.

[olivierlambert]

Ping @julien-f IDK if we need more info to have a specification

[julien-f]

@sborrill What do you need exactly?

You want XO to automatically sign in the user when the page is visited when the Authorization HTTP header contains the user credentials?

[sborrill]

@julien-f Yep, exactly. Respond with 401 header if username or password are wrong (or not present). Probably allow for the realm to be configured too (not important for NetScaler).

[julien-f]

@sborrill I have a work-in-progress branch with a plugin for this: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/4701

To test, you will need to checkout this branch, add a symlink to the packages/xo-server-auth-http plugin into the directory xo-server/node_modules and then to configure and unable the plugin from XO.

This will make basic authentication available with the path /signin/basic, note that you can make it the default authentication by overriding authentication.defaultSignInPage in your configuration file.

julien-f opened this pull request in vatesfr/xen-orchestra

open WiP: feat(xo-server): support HTTP basic auth #4701