# Authentik OIDC setup Local auth (bcrypt + session, the saved Vaultwarden password) is always available. When `OIDC_ENABLED=true`, the login page additionally shows a "Sign in with Authentik" button — this is additive, not a replacement, so the existing admin login keeps working. ## How the Authentik side was provisioned No API token or admin credentials were needed. Authentik supports **blueprints** — declarative YAML files it applies automatically — so the OAuth2 Provider + Application were created via a blueprint deployed to `/opt/authentik/blueprints-local/homelab-monitor-oidc.yaml` on CT121, picked up by the `worker` container on startup. This is purely additive: it doesn't touch any existing user, group, or admin credential. **Source of truth is `deploy/authentik/homelab-monitor-oidc.yaml` in this repo** — the copy on CT121 was hand-edited via `scp`/`pct push` several times before this was committed here, meaning CT121 was the only record of the current config for a while. If CT121 is ever rebuilt, redeploy from this file (substituting the real `client_secret` from Vaultwarden, since Authentik blueprints don't support secret references and the repo copy uses a placeholder): ```bash scp deploy/authentik/homelab-monitor-oidc.yaml pve:/tmp/ ssh pve "pct push 121 /tmp/homelab-monitor-oidc.yaml /opt/authentik/blueprints-local/homelab-monitor-oidc.yaml" ssh pve "pct exec 121 -- docker restart authentik-worker-1" ``` - Blueprint volume mount added to `/opt/authentik/docker-compose.yml` (backed up as `docker-compose.yml.bak-homelab-monitor` before editing) for both `server` and `worker`. - Provider: confidential client, `default-provider-authorization-implicit-consent` flow (auto-approve — reasonable for a single-user personal dashboard), signed with Authentik's existing self-signed cert. - Redirect URIs (both registered): `https://monitor.jerodrigged.com/api/auth/oidc/callback` (primary, set in `.env`) and `http://192.168.1.103:8090/api/auth/oidc/callback` (LAN fallback, works if the tunnel/DNS is down). - Application slug: `homelab-monitor`. - `property_mappings`: the three default Authentik OpenID scope mappings (openid/profile/email) — see "Bug: username field showed a raw session-token-looking hash" below for why this matters. - `invalidation_flow`: `default-invalidation-flow` (full Authentik logout), not the app-scoped `default-provider-invalidation-flow` — see "Bug: sign out didn't actually sign out of Authentik" below. To change anything (redirect URI, flow, scopes), edit `deploy/authentik/homelab-monitor-oidc.yaml`, redeploy via the commands above, and commit the change. ## Bug: LAN-IP issuer sent browsers somewhere they couldn't reach First deploy used `OIDC_ISSUER_URL=https://192.168.1.208:9443/application/o/homelab-monitor/` (Authentik's LAN IP) for discovery. Authentik's discovery document **echoes back whichever host you queried it through** — so `authorization_endpoint` came back as that same LAN IP. That value gets handed straight to the *browser* as a redirect target. Anyone off the LAN (or just not on wifi) got redirected to an address they couldn't reach at all — reported as "signed in via Authentik, got sent to the local IP, and it failed." Fix: Authentik was **already** publicly exposed at `https://auth.jerodrigged.com` (NPM proxy host id 9, predates this project) with a real Let's Encrypt cert — just wasn't the one used for `OIDC_ISSUER_URL`. Switched to it; `OIDC_ALLOW_INSECURE_TLS` could then go back to `false` too, since it's not a self-signed cert. **Always use the public issuer URL for anything a browser is ever redirected through**, even though the app's own server-to-server calls (token exchange, userinfo, jwks — all made directly by the Node process, never by a browser) would have worked fine against the LAN IP too. ## API-side implementation `apps/api/src/auth/oidc.ts` uses `openid-client` v6 with PKCE + state, with an optional insecure-TLS fetch override (`OIDC_ALLOW_INSECURE_TLS`) for the rare case the issuer is LAN-only with a self-signed cert — not needed now that the issuer is the public URL, but kept since Authentik's LAN address still works as a fallback if `auth.jerodrigged.com` is ever unreachable. Routes in `apps/api/src/routes/oidc.ts`: - `GET /api/auth/oidc/login` — redirects to Authentik's authorization endpoint - `GET /api/auth/oidc/callback` — exchanges the code, sets `req.session.username` from the `preferred_username` (falls back to `email`, then `sub`) ID token claim, and stores `authMethod: "oidc"` + the raw `id_token` in the session - `GET /api/auth/oidc/logout` — RP-Initiated Logout (issue #19). Only takes this path if `req.session.authMethod === "oidc"` (a locally-authenticated session has no Authentik session to end); redirects through Authentik's `end_session_endpoint` with `id_token_hint` + `post_logout_redirect_uri` (via `openid-client`'s `buildEndSessionUrl`, not hand-rolled) before landing back on `/`. **Must be a full-page navigation, not a fetch** — the frontend does `window.location.href = ...`, since Authentik needs to see a real browser request to clear its own session cookie on `auth.jerodrigged.com`. Plain `POST /api/auth/logout` still exists for local sessions and just clears the local one. Authentik has no dedicated `post_logout_redirect_uri` allowlist field (unlike `redirect_uris`) as of the version this was built against — confirmed by checking the provider's DB schema (`\d authentik_providers_oauth2_oauth2provider`) before implementing, not assumed. ## Bug: sign out didn't actually sign out of Authentik Issue #19's premise. First implementation was spec-compliant OIDC RP-Initiated Logout — redirected through Authentik's `end_session_endpoint` with correct `id_token_hint` + `post_logout_redirect_uri` — but Authentik's `default-provider-invalidation-flow` (the initial choice) only invalidates *this application's* session, leaving the underlying Authentik browser cookie valid. A subsequent "Sign in with Authentik" click would silently re-authenticate with no prompt at all — technically correct per spec (RP-Initiated Logout is only supposed to end the requesting client's session), but doesn't satisfy "sign out should sign out of Authentik too." Fix: switched `invalidation_flow` to `default-invalidation-flow` (Authentik's actual full-logout flow, designation `Logout` vs. the other's `Logged out of application`). This is a per-provider setting — doesn't change any other app's own logout behavior. Verified the difference with a full Playwright click-through both ways: app-scoped logout → "Sign in with Authentik" silently re-authenticates; full logout → a real Authentik login form ("Welcome to authentik! Login to continue.") is shown. ## Bug: username field showed a raw session-token-looking hash The OAuth2Provider was created without any `property_mappings` (scope-to-claims mappings) attached. Requesting `scope=openid profile email` in the authorization request doesn't matter if the provider itself isn't configured to *release* the corresponding claims — the ID token only ever carried the bare required claims (`sub`/`iss`/`aud`/`exp`/...), confirmed by decoding a real captured ID token rather than guessing. The app's claim fallback chain (`preferred_username ?? email ?? sub`, `apps/api/src/auth/oidc.ts`) landed on the raw `sub` value — with `sub_mode: hashed_user_id`, a long hash — which rendered next to the sign-out button looking like a leaked session token. Fix: attached Authentik's three default OpenID scope mappings (`authentik default OAuth Mapping: OpenID 'openid'/'profile'/'email'`) via `property_mappings` in the blueprint. `preferred_username` now populates correctly. No app-code change was needed — the fix belonged entirely on the Authentik provisioning side. ## Credentials `OIDC_CLIENT_ID`/`OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` are in CT122's `.env` and saved in Vaultwarden alongside the local admin login.