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Sign out also ends the Authentik SSO session (RP-Initiated Logout)
Previously logout only destroyed our own session -- someone who
signed in via Authentik stayed logged into Authentik itself, so
"Sign in with Authentik" again would silently re-authenticate with
no prompt.

Session now tracks authMethod ("local" | "oidc") and, for OIDC
sessions, the raw id_token (needed as id_token_hint at logout time).
New GET /api/auth/oidc/logout redirects through Authentik's
end_session_endpoint (openid-client's buildEndSessionUrl, not
hand-rolled) before landing back on /. Must be a full-page navigation
-- Authentik needs a real browser request to clear its own session
cookie, a fetch() wouldn't do that. Local sessions still use the
existing POST /api/auth/logout unchanged.

Confirmed Authentik has no dedicated post_logout_redirect_uri
allowlist field by checking the provider's DB schema directly before
implementing, rather than assuming.

Closes #19.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 08:54:21 -06:00

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# 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 `/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.
- 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`.
To change anything (redirect URI, flow, scopes), edit the blueprint file on CT121 and
either wait for Authentik's file-watcher or `docker restart authentik-worker-1` — it
re-applies on any change to the file.
## 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.
## Credentials
`OIDC_CLIENT_ID`/`OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` are in CT122's `.env` and saved in Vaultwarden
alongside the local admin login.