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This is documentation for Rasa X Documentation v0.35.x, which is no longer actively maintained.
For up-to-date documentation, see the latest version (1.1.x).

Version: 0.35.x

Single Sign-on

Rasa Enterprise Feature

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You can configure Rasa Enterprise to use single sign-on (SSO). When a user first signs in, they will be prompted to create a username. New users will be assigned the default role. You can customize the SAML default role by setting the SAML_DEFAULT_ROLE environment variable to either admin, annotator or tester, or alternatively to one of your custom roles.

You have the option to pre-define roles for new SAML users with a known Name ID on the command line by running

cd ${RASA_HOME}
sudo python rasa_x_commands.py create-saml <ROLE> <NAME-ID>

After signing in, new SAML users are prompted to contact the admin if they require extra permissions. An admin can then assign them to a specific role.

Rasa Enterprise supports SSO using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 protocol.

Configuring SAML SSO for Rasa Enterprise

Rasa Enterprise acts as a service provider (SP) which initiates the SSO request to an external SAML authority, called the identity provider (IdP). This section describes how to configure the Rasa Enterprise SAML SP to work with your enterprise IdP.

  1. Rasa Enterprise mounts SAML certificates, keys and a settings file from your project directory. Create a directory for the authentication information and a directory for storing the configuration file with
cd ${RASA_HOME}
mkdir -pv auth/certs
mkdir -pv auth/saml
  1. The Rasa Enterprise SAML SP requires a X.509 certificate to sign the authentication request. You’ll need to create a certificate and the corresponding private key in ${RASA_HOME}/auth/certs. To do this, run:
cd ${RASA_HOME}/auth/certs
openssl req -new -x509 -days 3652 -nodes -out sp.crt -keyout saml.key
  1. The SAML SP has to be configured using a json file. Create a file called settings.json in ${RASA_HOME}/auth/saml with the following content:
{
"strict": true,
"debug": true,
"sp": {
"entityId": "http://localhost/api/auth/saml/metadata",
"assertionConsumerService": {
"url": "http://localhost/api/auth/saml/acs",
"binding": "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST"
},
"NameIDFormat": "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified"
},
"idp": {
"entityId": "<ENTITY_ID>",
"singleSignOnService": {
"url": "<SSO_URL>",
"binding": "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Redirect"
},
"x509cert": "<X509_CERT>"
}
}

Replace the following placeholder variables with values specific to your SAML IdP:

  • ENTITY_ID: Identifier of the IdP identity

  • SSO_URL: Target URL to which the SSO requests are sent

  • X509_CERT: Public X.509 certificate of the IdP

If you want to activate the SAML endpoint before you have your actual SAML IdP for example for a metadata-based configuration of your IdP, you need to make sure that you use these values with:

  • ENTITY_ID: is not empty

  • SSO_URL: has the format of a URL, for example https://example.com

  • X509_CERT: is not empty

Once the rasa-x service has been (re-)started after modifying the SAML settings, you can retrieve the SAML endpoint metadata by issuing this GET command:

curl http://<Rasa Enterprise server host>/api/auth/saml/metadata

You can specify additional details about your IdP in settings.json, as well as in an additional file called advanced_settings.json. Have a look at onelogin’s documentation on python3-saml for more details.

note

First-time SSO users are invited to choose their own username in Rasa Enterprise. This feature relies on a permanent NameID (i.e. the nameid-format cannot be of type transient). For available nameid-format types, please have a look at the section on format identifiers in the SAML 2.0 Name ID specification document.