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Configuring user access

User registration via sign up form

By exposing the REANA User Interface, the default configuration allows users to sign-up.

When accessing the UI for the first time, users will be prompted with a sign-in form and a link to the sign-up form:

After signing up, an email is sent to the user's email address for confirmation. Once the email address is confirmed, the user can then ask administrators for an access token. Note that for users to be able to receive the confirmation email, the notifications.enabled Helm value must be set to true, and a working email configuration must be present.

If you would like to disable the email verification step, for example because you disabled the REANA notifications, you can add REANA_USER_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION: false Helm value to components.reana_server.environment.

If you would like to disable the sign-up form completely, and add your users manually, you can configure components.reana_ui.hide_signup Helm value accordingly.

User registration via Single Sign-On

User access through Single-Sign-On (SSO) authentication is also possible. REANA currently supports CERN SSO as well as any third-party Keycloak instance.

Keycloak Single Sign-On configuration

First of all, to integrate REANA with your Keycloak instance, you need to create a new client from the Keycloak's admin dashboard. There are many configuration options; the following are the minimal ones that you should set:

• Valid Redirect URIs should be set to https://reana.example.org/api/oauth/authorized/keycloak/ (see Keycloak's Access Settings);
• Client authentication should be enabled in order to get the client ID and the client secret (see Keycloak's Confidential client credentials).

You can then configure REANA to use your Keycloak instance with the following configuration of the login list in your Helm values:

• name can be chosen freely and will be used as an internal identifier of the Keycloak instance;
• type must be set to keycloak;
• config.title is the name of the Keycloak instance that will be shown to users on the web interface login page;
• config.base_url, config.realm_url, config.auth_url, config.token_url and config.userinfo_url should all be set to the corresponding Keycloak endpoints.

Please note that currently only one instance of keycloak type is supported, so the login array in your values.yaml file must contain at most one element:

login:
  - name: "yourprovider"
    type: "keycloak"
    config:
      title: "YOUR PROVIDER"
      base_url: "https:/keycloak.example.org"
      realm_url: "https://keycloak.example.org/auth/realms/your-realm"
      auth_url: "https://keycloak.example.org/auth/realms/your-realm/protocol/openid-connect/auth"
      token_url: "https://keycloak.example.org/auth/realms/your-realm/protocol/openid-connect/token"
      userinfo_url: "https://keycloak.example.org/auth/realms/your-realm/protocol/openid-connect/userinfo"

You should then take the values of the client ID and the client secret that you obtained when you created your SSO application in the Keycloak dashboard and add it under the secrets.login Helm value:

secrets:
  login:
    yourprovider:
      consumer_key: <your-client-id>
      consumer_secret: <your-client-secret>

Note that the key yourprovider must match the internal identifier name you have chosen above as the name of your Keycloak instance.

Furthermore, given that email verification is already handled by Keycloak, you have to set components.reana_server.environment.REANA_USER_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION to false. Finally, to disable signup/signin for local users, you can set components.reana_ui.local_users to false.

When accessing the web interface, this is what the login page will look like:

For further information on how to use Keycloak, see Keycloak’s documentation.

CERN Single Sign-On configuration

Single Sign-On is available for CERN deployments via components.reana_ui.cern_sso Helm value. This configuration can be combined with local users or used exclusively. When accessing the UI you will see a page like this:

When clicking on "Sign in with SSO" the users will be redirected to the corresponding login page to enter their SSO provider credentials. Once authenticated, they will be redirected back to REANA with their user logged in.

You might also want to disable the local users functionality altogether to rely only on SSO users. To do this, set components.reana_ui.local_users Helm value to false.