Pimcore Single Sign-on

This bundle provides single-sign on support for Pimcore backend login. This allows to maintain user credentials and roles on external authenticatin providers.

Delegate user management to an authentication provider has a lot of advantages:

• user only has to remember one password for all used services
• encryption and security is expected to be higher on those authentication providers as their whole business model highly depends on it
• administration has a single system where they can create users - so nobody has to create Pimcore accounts manually
• administration has a single system to disable users - when an employee leaves a company, you can disable all logins with a single click

Currently the bundle supports OpenID and LDAP authentication providers. Support for SAML and OAuth2 will come soon.

OpenID is supported by a wide range of applications like

• Microsoft Azure Active Directory
• Auth0
• Google
• Okta
• and others

How to get the plugin

You can buy this plugin in the Blackbit Shop or write an email to info@blackbit.de.

Configuration

Configuration can be done directly in Pimcore backend (no need to edit YAML files):

The bundle gets shipped with detailed instructions how to set up auth applications at the authentication provider, where to find the necessary keys / settings and where to paste those secrets in Pimcore.

You can add as many auth providers as you want (e.g. if your internal users use a different auth provider as your Pimcore agency).

You can also configure default roles for each authentication provider. Those rules will get applied to newly created users. If an existing user logs in the default roles will not get applied.

Pimcore backend login

Single sign on as an optional login method

For each authentication provider (except for LDAP providers) a new button will be added to Pimcore's login screen:

After the user clicks this button, he will get redirected to the authentication provider. There he can log in (or perhaps already is logged in). Afterwards he will get redirected to your Pimcore and logged in. Internally a usual Pimcore user will get created based on the information of the authentication provider (e.g. username, email, roles).

Single sign on as default login method

You can configure one authentication provider to be the default one. When this is done and a not logged-in user accesses https://your-pimcore.com/admin he will automatically get redirected to the authentication provider to login there. Afterwards he will get sent back to Pimcore backend being logged in.

LDAP

For LDAP authentication providers no additional button gets added to the login screen but the normal login form gets used. With those credentials the LDAP provider gets requested and if the credentials are valid, the user gets logged in. Same as for other authentication types internally a usual Pimcore user will get created and the LDAP profile fields get applied ( e.g. username, email).

Single-sign on for frontend applications

(The following instructions are only important if you want to add SSO to your Pimcore-based frontend application. If you only want to log in to Pimcore backend, the following section can be ignored.)

Integration

To integrate single sign-on in frontend applications, you can add the following code in your Twig templates:

{{ 
  render(
    controller('Blackbit\\SingleSignOnBundle\\Controller\\IdentityController:frontendProvidersAction')
  )
}}

If you want to get auth provider data as JSON, please use json parameter with value true. If json not provided, buttons will be shown as html.

{% set authProviders %}
  {{  
    render(
      controller('Blackbit\\SingleSignOnBundle\\Controller\\IdentityController:frontendProvidersAction', { 'json': true }
      )
    )
  }}
{% endset %}
window.location.href = {{ path('sso_frontend_redirect', {'provider': authProviders[0].name }) }};

Furthermore you can set redirectUrl parameter to redirect user after successful login. If redirectUrl is not provided, the user will get redirected to the requested page - if this is not available (because the login page was called without referer), it will redirect to default URL / (start page).

{{  
  render(
    controller('Blackbit\\SingleSignOnBundle\\Controller\\IdentityController:frontendProvidersAction', { 'json': false, 'redirectUrl': '/en/test' }
    )
  )
}}

Event for successful login

You can subscribe to the event sso.logged-in which gets triggered upon successful frontend login. This event provides a Pimcore\Model\User object. You can modify its data or even exchange the whole object. This event will be triggered only for frontend authorization.

For example, in services.yaml register your event subscriber

App\EventListener\SsoLoginListener:
    tags:
        - { name: kernel.event_listener, event: sso.logged-in, method: onSuccessLogin }

Then create SsoLoginListener class in src\EventListener folder with following code:

namespace App\EventListener;

use Pimcore\Model\User;
use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\GenericEvent;

class SsoLoginListener {
    public function onSuccessLogin (GenericEvent $e) {
        /** @var User $user */
        $user = $e->getArgument('user');

        // change user data
        $user->setEmail('test@example.org');

        // or even use a user object of a different class
        $user = \Pimcore\Model\DataObject\CustomUser::getByUsername($user->getUsername());
        $e->setArgument('user', $user);
    }
}

Authorization check

To check if a user is logged in, you can use the SingleSignOnTrait in your controller:

class MyController {
  use \Blackbit\SingleSignOnBundle\Controller\SingleSignOnTrait;

  public function myAction(\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request) {
    try {
        $this->guardLoggedIn($request);
    } catch(\Exception $e) {
        return $this->redirectToRoute('login'); // customize the route name for the login page here
    }
  }
}

Logout

For logout you can use the SingleSignOnTrait:

class MyController {
  use \Blackbit\SingleSignOnBundle\Controller\SingleSignOnTrait;

  public function logoutAction(\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request) {
    $this->logout($request);

    return $this->redirectToRoute('login'); // customize the route name for the logout page here
  }
}