SimpleSAMLphp fails to recognize privacyIDEA configuration existence

Hi guys,

I’m trying to implement SSO for a web application (node.js) w/ two factor authentication (U2F tokens), so privacyIDEA was decided upon to handle the token part while SimpleSAMLphp would be configured as an Identity Provider and finally a package like passport-saml to act as a bridge between SimpleSAMLphp and the web application utilising SAML protocol to manage such communication process.

Now, I’ve followed this guide to install privacyIdEA and SimpleSAMLphp on the same server, and here are the Apache configuration files for each - I’m using self signed certificates btw.

privacyIDEA

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        # You might want to change this
        ServerName pi.is.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                # For Apache 2.4 you need to set this:
                Require all granted
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>

        # Yubico servers use /wsapi/2.0/verify as the path in the
        # validation URL. Some tools (e.g. Kolab 2fa) let the 
        # user/admin change the api host, but not the rest of
        # the URL. Uncomment the following two lines to reroute 
        # the api URL internally to privacyideas /ttype/yubikey.
        #RewriteEngine  on
        #RewriteRule    "^/wsapi/2.0/verify"  "/ttype/yubikey" [PT]

        # We can run several instances on different paths with different configurations
        WSGIScriptAlias /      /etc/privacyidea/privacyideaapp.wsgi
        #WSGIScriptAlias /instance1      /home/cornelius/src/privacyidea/deploy/privacyideaapp1.wsgi
        #WSGIScriptAlias /instance2      /home/cornelius/src/privacyidea/deploy/privacyideaapp2.wsgi
        #WSGIScriptAlias /instance3      /home/cornelius/src/privacyidea/deploy/privacyideaapp3.wsgi
        #
        # The daemon is running as user 'privacyidea'
        # This user should have access to the encKey database encryption file
        WSGIDaemonProcess privacyidea processes=1 threads=15 display-name=%{GROUP} user=privacyidea
        WSGIProcessGroup privacyidea
        WSGIPassAuthorization On

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        LogLevel warn
        # Do not use %q! This will reveal all parameters, including setting PINs and Keys!
        # Using SSL_CLINET_S_DN_CN will show you, which administrator did what task
        LogFormat "%h %l %u %t %>s \"%m %U %H\"  %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"" privacyIDEA
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log privacyIDEA

        #   SSL Engine Switch:
        #   Enable/Disable SSL for this virtual host.

        SSLEngine on
        SSLProtocol ALL -SSLv2 -SSLv3
        SSLHonorCipherOrder On
        SSLCipherSuite ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS


        #   If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the
        #   SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.
        SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/certs/privacyideaserver.pem
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/privacyideaserver.key

        <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
                SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
        </FilesMatch>
        <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
                SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
        </Directory>
        BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" \
                nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
                downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

</VirtualHost>

# If you want to forward http request to https enable the
# following virtual host.
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
#       # This will enable the Rewrite capabilities
        RewriteEngine On
#
#       # This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS
        RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
        RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

SimpleSAMLphp

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName idp.sso.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/simplesaml
        SetEnv SIMPLESAMLPHP_CONFIG_DIR /var/simplesamlphp/config

        Alias /simplesaml /var/simplesamlphp/www

        <Directory /var/simplesamlphp/www/>
        Require all granted
        </Directory>

        RedirectMatch ^/$ https://idp.sso.com/simplesaml

        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/simplesaml.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/simplesaml.key

</VirtualHost>

# If you want to forward http request to https enable the
# following virtual host.
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
#       # This will enable the Rewrite capabilities
        RewriteEngine On
#
#       # This checks to make sure the connection is not already HTTPS
        RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
        RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>

After making sure that both websites run smoothly, and I’m able to login to both, I followed this tutorial, hoping to replace the OTP w/ U2F, but sadly privacyIDEA login doesn’t show up as illustrated down below.

Screenshot-2018-3-1%20Test%20authentication%20sources

Although, I’ve followed howtoforge’s guide faithfully, yet it seems like the configurations aren’t being read.

My bad guys, I was modifying the files located in /etc/simplesamlphp/authsources.php instead of /var/simplesamlphp/config/auth. Apparently this was caused by trying to install simpleSAMLphp in couple of different files.

I should’ve been able to tell since, I configured Apache to serve files from this route. I apologize, my bad.