Team --
I'm currently having issues getting Keycloak to read the client certificate forwarded
from proxy in HTTP header from Apache using Apache SPI Cert lookup. Instead, it reads the
wildcard of the cert provided below in the virtual host of *.xxx.ninja from
SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile. However, if i use that common name of the wildcard and
assign it to any user, Keycloak will log that user in even though that is not the user
originally making the initial request to the proxy. In short, how do I force Keycloak
running in a container to use the apache spi to retrieve cert credentials in header? I
tried developer documentation by adding spi per
https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/index.html#client-certi... to
both standalone.xml and deployment folder but it's as if Keycloak is not recognizing
the configuration change in container after build. If I remove
SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile from Apache, Keycloak sends a message to the proxy saying
"downstream server expected client cert but none configured" so that option
didn't work either. Details below:
My apache reverse proxy is:
<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLEngine on
SSLProxyEngine on
SSLVerifyClient optional
SSLVerifyDepth 4
SSLOptions +ExportCertData
SSLProxyCheckPeerName off
ProxyPreserveHost On
SSLProxyCACertificateFile "/usr/local/apache2/conf/ca-xxx-ninja.crt"
SSLCACertificateFile "/usr/local/apache2/conf/xxx_authorities.pem"
SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile
"/usr/local/apache2/conf/proxy-wildcard-xxx-ninja.pem"
RequestHeader set SSL_CLIENT_CERT ""
RequestHeader set SSL_CLIENT_CERT_CHAIN_4 ""
ServerName sso.xxx.ninja
ProxyPass /
https://keycloak:8443/
ProxyPassReverse /
https://keycloak:8443/
ProxyRequests Off
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Port "443"
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
RequestHeader set SSL_CLIENT_CERT "%{SSL_CLIENT_CERT}i"
RequestHeader set CERT_CHAIN "%{SSL_CLIENT_CERT_CHAIN_4}i"
</VirtualHost>
My Keycloak Dockerfile (abbreviated - sanitized):
ENV "X509_CA_BUNDLE"="/opt/xxx/xxx_authorities.pem"
USER root
RUN mkdir -p /etc/x509/https
RUN mkdir -p /opt/xxx
COPY "./certs/tls.crt" "/etc/x509/https"
COPY "./certs/tls.key" "/etc/x509/https"
COPY "./standalone.xml"
"/opt/jboss/keycloak/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml" <----
originally edited this file to hold apache spi
COPY "./apache.xml"
"/opt/jboss/keycloak/standalone/deployments/apache.xml" < ------- moved
apache spi for x509 here per online instructions
COPY "./certs/ca-xxx-ninja.crt" "/opt"
COPY "./certs/xxx/xxx_authorities.pem" "/opt/xxx/"
RUN keytool -noprompt -import -trustcacerts -alias root -file /opt/ca-xxx-ninja.crt
-keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit
RUN keytool -noprompt -import -trustcacerts -alias xxx -file /opt/xxx/xxx_authorities.pem
-keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit
USER 1000
EXPOSE 8080 8443
Any guidance/ideas you can provide would much appreciated as I've been working it for
a few days now and can't seem to get over this last hurdle.
Respectfully,
Freddie Lee Johnson, Jr.