oauth2_proxy/docs/configuration/configuration.md
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Configuration

oauth2_proxy can be configured via config file, command line options or environment variables.

To generate a strong cookie secret use python -c 'import os,base64; print base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(16))'

Config File

An example [oauth2_proxy.cfg]({{ site.gitweb }}/contrib/oauth2_proxy.cfg.example) config file is in the contrib directory. It can be used by specifying -config=/etc/oauth2_proxy.cfg

Command Line Options

Option Type Description Default
-acr-values string optional, used by login.gov "http://idmanagement.gov/ns/assurance/loa/1"
-approval-prompt string OAuth approval_prompt "force"
-auth-logging bool Log authentication attempts true
-auth-logging-format string Template for authentication log lines see Logging Configuration
-authenticated-emails-file string authenticate against emails via file (one per line)
-azure-tenant string string go to a tenant-specific or common (tenant-independent) endpoint. "common"
-basic-auth-password string the password to set when passing the HTTP Basic Auth header
-client-id string the OAuth Client ID: ie: "123456.apps.googleusercontent.com"
-client-secret string the OAuth Client Secret
-config string path to config file
-cookie-domain string an optional cookie domain to force cookies to (ie: .yourcompany.com)
-cookie-expire duration expire timeframe for cookie 168h0m0s
-cookie-httponly bool set HttpOnly cookie flag true
-cookie-name string the name of the cookie that the oauth_proxy creates "_oauth2_proxy"
-cookie-path string an optional cookie path to force cookies to (ie: /poc/) "/"
-cookie-refresh duration refresh the cookie after this duration; 0 to disable
-cookie-secret string the seed string for secure cookies (optionally base64 encoded)
-cookie-secure bool set secure (HTTPS) cookie flag true
-custom-templates-dir string path to custom html templates
-display-htpasswd-form bool display username / password login form if an htpasswd file is provided true
-email-domain string authenticate emails with the specified domain (may be given multiple times). Use * to authenticate any email
-extra-jwt-issuers string if -skip-jwt-bearer-tokens is set, a list of extra JWT issuer=audience pairs (where the issuer URL has a .well-known/openid-configuration or a .well-known/jwks.json)
-exclude-logging-paths string comma separated list of paths to exclude from logging, eg: "/ping,/path2" "" (no paths excluded)
-flush-interval duration period between flushing response buffers when streaming responses "1s"
-banner string custom banner string. Use "-" to disable default banner.
-footer string custom footer string. Use "-" to disable default footer.
-gcp-healthchecks bool will enable /liveness_check, /readiness_check, and / (with the proper user-agent) endpoints that will make it work well with GCP App Engine and GKE Ingresses false
-github-org string restrict logins to members of this organisation
-github-team string restrict logins to members of any of these teams (slug), separated by a comma
-gitlab-group string restrict logins to members of any of these groups (slug), separated by a comma
-google-admin-email string the google admin to impersonate for api calls
-google-group string restrict logins to members of this google group (may be given multiple times).
-google-service-account-json string the path to the service account json credentials
-htpasswd-file string additionally authenticate against a htpasswd file. Entries must be created with htpasswd -s for SHA encryption
-http-address string [http://]<addr>:<port> or unix://<path> to listen on for HTTP clients "127.0.0.1:4180"
-https-address string <addr>:<port> to listen on for HTTPS clients ":443"
-logging-compress bool Should rotated log files be compressed using gzip false
-logging-filename string File to log requests to, empty for stdout "" (stdout)
-logging-local-time bool Use local time in log files and backup filenames instead of UTC true (local time)
-logging-max-age int Maximum number of days to retain old log files 7
-logging-max-backups int Maximum number of old log files to retain; 0 to disable 0
-logging-max-size int Maximum size in megabytes of the log file before rotation 100
-jwt-key string private key in PEM format used to sign JWT, so that you can say something like -jwt-key="${OAUTH2_PROXY_JWT_KEY}": required by login.gov
-jwt-key-file string path to the private key file in PEM format used to sign the JWT so that you can say something like -jwt-key-file=/etc/ssl/private/jwt_signing_key.pem: required by login.gov
-login-url string Authentication endpoint
-insecure-oidc-allow-unverified-email bool don't fail if an email address in an id_token is not verified false
-oidc-issuer-url string the OpenID Connect issuer URL. ie: "https://accounts.google.com"
-oidc-jwks-url string OIDC JWKS URI for token verification; required if OIDC discovery is disabled
-pass-access-token bool pass OAuth access_token to upstream via X-Forwarded-Access-Token header false
-pass-authorization-header bool pass OIDC IDToken to upstream via Authorization Bearer header false
-pass-basic-auth bool pass HTTP Basic Auth, X-Forwarded-User and X-Forwarded-Email information to upstream true
-pass-host-header bool pass the request Host Header to upstream true
-pass-user-headers bool pass X-Forwarded-User and X-Forwarded-Email information to upstream true
-profile-url string Profile access endpoint
-provider string OAuth provider google
-ping-path string the ping endpoint that can be used for basic health checks "/ping"
-proxy-prefix string the url root path that this proxy should be nested under (e.g. /<oauth2>/sign_in) "/oauth2"
-proxy-websockets bool enables WebSocket proxying true
-pubjwk-url string JWK pubkey access endpoint: required by login.gov
-redeem-url string Token redemption endpoint
-redirect-url string the OAuth Redirect URL. ie: "https://internalapp.yourcompany.com/oauth2/callback"
-redis-connection-url string URL of redis server for redis session storage (eg: redis://HOST[:PORT])
-redis-sentinel-master-name string Redis sentinel master name. Used in conjunction with --redis-use-sentinel
-redis-sentinel-connection-urls string | list List of Redis sentinel connection URLs (eg redis://HOST[:PORT]). Used in conjunction with --redis-use-sentinel
-redis-use-sentinel bool Connect to redis via sentinels. Must set --redis-sentinel-master-name and --redis-sentinel-connection-urls to use this feature false
-request-logging bool Log requests true
-request-logging-format string Template for request log lines see Logging Configuration
-resource string The resource that is protected (Azure AD only)
-scope string OAuth scope specification
-session-store-type string Session data storage backend cookie
-set-xauthrequest bool set X-Auth-Request-User and X-Auth-Request-Email response headers (useful in Nginx auth_request mode) false
-set-authorization-header bool set Authorization Bearer response header (useful in Nginx auth_request mode) false
-signature-key string GAP-Signature request signature key (algorithm:secretkey)
-silence-ping-logging bool disable logging of requests to ping endpoint false
-skip-auth-preflight bool will skip authentication for OPTIONS requests false
-skip-auth-regex string bypass authentication for requests paths that match (may be given multiple times)
-skip-jwt-bearer-tokens bool will skip requests that have verified JWT bearer tokens false
-skip-oidc-discovery bool bypass OIDC endpoint discovery. -login-url, -redeem-url and -oidc-jwks-url must be configured in this case false
-skip-provider-button bool will skip sign-in-page to directly reach the next step: oauth/start false
-ssl-insecure-skip-verify bool skip validation of certificates presented when using HTTPS providers false
-ssl-upstream-insecure-skip-verify bool skip validation of certificates presented when using HTTPS upstreams false
-standard-logging bool Log standard runtime information true
-standard-logging-format string Template for standard log lines see Logging Configuration
-tls-cert-file string path to certificate file
-tls-key-file string path to private key file
-upstream string | list the http url(s) of the upstream endpoint or file:// paths for static files. Routing is based on the path
-validate-url string Access token validation endpoint
-version n/a print version string
-whitelist-domain string | list allowed domains for redirection after authentication. Prefix domain with a . to allow subdomains (eg .example.com)

Note, when using the whitelist-domain option, any domain prefixed with a . will allow any subdomain of the specified domain as a valid redirect URL.

See below for provider specific options

Upstreams Configuration

oauth2_proxy supports having multiple upstreams, and has the option to pass requests on to HTTP(S) servers or serve static files from the file system. HTTP and HTTPS upstreams are configured by providing a URL such as http://127.0.0.1:8080/ for the upstream parameter, that will forward all authenticated requests to be forwarded to the upstream server. If you instead provide http://127.0.0.1:8080/some/path/ then it will only be requests that start with /some/path/ which are forwarded to the upstream.

Static file paths are configured as a file:// URL. file:///var/www/static/ will serve the files from that directory at http://[oauth2_proxy url]/var/www/static/, which may not be what you want. You can provide the path to where the files should be available by adding a fragment to the configured URL. The value of the fragment will then be used to specify which path the files are available at. file:///var/www/static/#/static/ will ie. make /var/www/static/ available at http://[oauth2_proxy url]/static/.

Multiple upstreams can either be configured by supplying a comma separated list to the -upstream parameter, supplying the parameter multiple times or provinding a list in the config file. When multiple upstreams are used routing to them will be based on the path they are set up with.

Environment variables

Every command line argument can be specified as an environment variable by prefixing it with OAUTH2_PROXY_, capitalising it, and replacing hypens (-) with underscores (_). This is particularly useful for storing secrets outside of a configuration file or the command line.

For example, the --cookie-secret flag becomes OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET and the --set-authorization-header flag becomes OAUTH2_PROXY_SET_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER.

Logging Configuration

By default, OAuth2 Proxy logs all output to stdout. Logging can be configured to output to a rotating log file using the -logging-filename command.

If logging to a file you can also configure the maximum file size (-logging-max-size), age (-logging-max-age), max backup logs (-logging-max-backups), and if backup logs should be compressed (-logging-compress).

There are three different types of logging: standard, authentication, and HTTP requests. These can each be enabled or disabled with -standard-logging, -auth-logging, and -request-logging.

Each type of logging has their own configurable format and variables. By default these formats are similar to the Apache Combined Log.

Logging of requests to the /ping endpoint can be disabled with -silence-ping-logging reducing log volume. This flag appends the -ping-path to -exclude-logging-paths.

Auth Log Format

Authentication logs are logs which are guaranteed to contain a username or email address of a user attempting to authenticate. These logs are output by default in the below format:

<REMOTE_ADDRESS> - <user@domain.com> [19/Mar/2015:17:20:19 -0400] [<STATUS>] <MESSAGE>

The status block will contain one of the below strings:

  • AuthSuccess If a user has authenticated successfully by any method
  • AuthFailure If the user failed to authenticate explicitly
  • AuthError If there was an unexpected error during authentication

If you require a different format than that, you can configure it with the -auth-logging-format flag. The default format is configured as follows:

{% raw %}{{.Client}} - {{.Username}} [{{.Timestamp}}] [{{.Status}}] {{.Message}}{% endraw %}

Available variables for auth logging:

Variable Example Description
Client 74.125.224.72 The client/remote IP address. Will use the X-Real-IP header it if exists.
Host domain.com The value of the Host header.
Protocol HTTP/1.0 The request protocol.
RequestMethod GET The request method.
Timestamp 19/Mar/2015:17:20:19 -0400 The date and time of the logging event.
UserAgent - The full user agent as reported by the requesting client.
Username username@email.com The email or username of the auth request.
Status AuthSuccess The status of the auth request. See above for details.
Message Authenticated via OAuth2 The details of the auth attempt.

Request Log Format

HTTP request logs will output by default in the below format:

<REMOTE_ADDRESS> - <user@domain.com> [19/Mar/2015:17:20:19 -0400] <HOST_HEADER> GET <UPSTREAM_HOST> "/path/" HTTP/1.1 "<USER_AGENT>" <RESPONSE_CODE> <RESPONSE_BYTES> <REQUEST_DURATION>

If you require a different format than that, you can configure it with the -request-logging-format flag. The default format is configured as follows:

{% raw %}{{.Client}} - {{.Username}} [{{.Timestamp}}] {{.Host}} {{.RequestMethod}} {{.Upstream}} {{.RequestURI}} {{.Protocol}} {{.UserAgent}} {{.StatusCode}} {{.ResponseSize}} {{.RequestDuration}}{% endraw %}

Available variables for request logging:

Variable Example Description
Client 74.125.224.72 The client/remote IP address. Will use the X-Real-IP header it if exists.
Host domain.com The value of the Host header.
Protocol HTTP/1.0 The request protocol.
RequestDuration 0.001 The time in seconds that a request took to process.
RequestMethod GET The request method.
RequestURI "/oauth2/auth" The URI path of the request.
ResponseSize 12 The size in bytes of the response.
StatusCode 200 The HTTP status code of the response.
Timestamp 19/Mar/2015:17:20:19 -0400 The date and time of the logging event.
Upstream - The upstream data of the HTTP request.
UserAgent - The full user agent as reported by the requesting client.
Username username@email.com The email or username of the auth request.

Standard Log Format

All other logging that is not covered by the above two types of logging will be output in this standard logging format. This includes configuration information at startup and errors that occur outside of a session. The default format is below:

[19/Mar/2015:17:20:19 -0400] [main.go:40] <MESSAGE>

If you require a different format than that, you can configure it with the -standard-logging-format flag. The default format is configured as follows:

{% raw %}[{{.Timestamp}}] [{{.File}}] {{.Message}}{% endraw %}

Available variables for standard logging:

Variable Example Description
Timestamp 19/Mar/2015:17:20:19 -0400 The date and time of the logging event.
File main.go:40 The file and line number of the logging statement.
Message HTTP: listening on 127.0.0.1:4180 The details of the log statement.

Configuring for use with the Nginx auth_request directive

The Nginx auth_request directive allows Nginx to authenticate requests via the oauth2_proxy's /auth endpoint, which only returns a 202 Accepted response or a 401 Unauthorized response without proxying the request through. For example:

server {
  listen 443 ssl;
  server_name ...;
  include ssl/ssl.conf;

  location /oauth2/ {
    proxy_pass       http://127.0.0.1:4180;
    proxy_set_header Host                    $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP               $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Scheme                $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Auth-Request-Redirect $request_uri;
  }
  location = /oauth2/auth {
    proxy_pass       http://127.0.0.1:4180;
    proxy_set_header Host             $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Scheme         $scheme;
    # nginx auth_request includes headers but not body
    proxy_set_header Content-Length   "";
    proxy_pass_request_body           off;
  }

  location / {
    auth_request /oauth2/auth;
    error_page 401 = /oauth2/sign_in;

    # pass information via X-User and X-Email headers to backend,
    # requires running with --set-xauthrequest flag
    auth_request_set $user   $upstream_http_x_auth_request_user;
    auth_request_set $email  $upstream_http_x_auth_request_email;
    proxy_set_header X-User  $user;
    proxy_set_header X-Email $email;

    # if you enabled --pass-access-token, this will pass the token to the backend
    auth_request_set $token  $upstream_http_x_auth_request_access_token;
    proxy_set_header X-Access-Token $token;

    # if you enabled --cookie-refresh, this is needed for it to work with auth_request
    auth_request_set $auth_cookie $upstream_http_set_cookie;
    add_header Set-Cookie $auth_cookie;

    # When using the --set-authorization-header flag, some provider's cookies can exceed the 4kb
    # limit and so the OAuth2 Proxy splits these into multiple parts.
    # Nginx normally only copies the first `Set-Cookie` header from the auth_request to the response,
    # so if your cookies are larger than 4kb, you will need to extract additional cookies manually.
    auth_request_set $auth_cookie_name_upstream_1 $upstream_cookie_auth_cookie_name_1;

    # Extract the Cookie attributes from the first Set-Cookie header and append them
    # to the second part ($upstream_cookie_* variables only contain the raw cookie content)
    if ($auth_cookie ~* "(; .*)") {
        set $auth_cookie_name_0 $auth_cookie;
        set $auth_cookie_name_1 "auth_cookie_name_1=$auth_cookie_name_upstream_1$1";
    }

    # Send both Set-Cookie headers now if there was a second part
    if ($auth_cookie_name_upstream_1) {
        add_header Set-Cookie $auth_cookie_name_0;
        add_header Set-Cookie $auth_cookie_name_1;
    }

    proxy_pass http://backend/;
    # or "root /path/to/site;" or "fastcgi_pass ..." etc
  }
}

If you use ingress-nginx in Kubernetes (which includes the Lua module), you also can use the following configuration snippet for your Ingress:

nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-response-headers: Authorization
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-signin: https://$host/oauth2/start?rd=$request_uri
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-url: https://$host/oauth2/auth
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: |
  auth_request_set $name_upstream_1 $upstream_cookie_name_1;

  access_by_lua_block {
    if ngx.var.name_upstream_1 ~= "" then
      ngx.header["Set-Cookie"] = "name_1=" .. ngx.var.name_upstream_1 .. ngx.var.auth_cookie:match("(; .*)")
    end
  }  

You have to substitute name with the actual cookie name you configured via --cookie-name parameter. If you don't set a custom cookie name the variable should be "$upstream_cookie__oauth2_proxy_1" instead of "$upstream_cookie_name_1" and the new cookie-name should be "_oauth2_proxy_1=" instead of "name_1=".