CLI tool which enables you to login and retrieve AWS temporary credentials using SAML with ADFS or PingFederate Identity Providers.
This is based on python code from How to Implement a General Solution for Federated API/CLI Access Using SAML 2.0.
The process goes something like this:
- Setup an account alias, either using the default or given a name
- Prompt user for credentials
- Log in to Identity Provider using form based authentication
- Build a SAML assertion containing AWS roles
- Exchange the role and SAML assertion with AWS STS service to get a temporary set of credentials
- Save these credentials to an aws profile named "saml"
- One of the supported Identity Providers
- ADFS (2.x or 3.x)
- PingFederate PingId
- Okta
- KeyCloak (TOTP)
- Google Apps
- AWS SAML Provider configured
Aside from Okta, most of the providers in this project are using screen scraping to log users into SAML, this isn't ideal and hopefully vendors make this easier in the future. In addition to this there are some things you need to know:
- AWS defaults to session tokens being issued with a duration of up to 3600 seconds (1 hour), this can now be configured as per Enable Federated API Access to your AWS Resources for up to 12 hours Using IAM Roles and
--session-durationflag. - Every SAML provider is different, the login process, MFA support is pluggable and therefore some work may be needed to integrate with your identity server
If you're on OSX you can install saml2aws using homebrew!
brew tap versent/homebrew-taps
brew install saml2aws
If you're on Windows you can install saml2aws using chocolatey!
choco install saml2aws
saml2aws --version
Install the AWS CLI see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html, in our case we are using homebrew on OSX.
brew install awscli
usage: saml2aws [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]
A command line tool to help with SAML access to the AWS token service.
Flags:
--help Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
--version Show application version.
--verbose Enable verbose logging
-i, --provider=PROVIDER This flag it is obsolete see https://github.com/Versent/saml2aws#adding-idp-accounts.
-a, --idp-account="default" The name of the configured IDP account
--idp-provider=IDP-PROVIDER
The configured IDP provider
--mfa=MFA The name of the mfa
-s, --skip-verify Skip verification of server certificate.
--url=URL The URL of the SAML IDP server used to login.
--username=USERNAME The username used to login.
--password=PASSWORD The password used to login.
--mfa-token=MFA-TOKEN The current MFA token (supported in Keycloak, ADFS).
--role=ROLE The ARN of the role to assume.
--aws-urn=AWS-URN The URN used by SAML when you login.
--skip-prompt Skip prompting for parameters during login.
--session-duration=SESSION-DURATION
The duration of your AWS Session.
Commands:
help [<command>...]
Show help.
configure
Configure a new IDP account.
login [<flags>]
Login to a SAML 2.0 IDP and convert the SAML assertion to an STS token.
exec [<flags>] [<command>...]
Exec the supplied command with env vars from STS token.
list-roles
List available role ARNs.
This is the new way of adding IDP provider accounts, it enables you to have named accounts with whatever settings you like and supports having one default account which is used if you omit the account flag. This replaces the --provider flag and old configuration file in 1.x.
To add a default IdP account to saml2aws just run the following command and follow the prompts.
$ saml2aws configure
? Please choose a provider: Ping
? AWS Profile myaccount
? URL https://example.com
? Username [email protected]
? Password
No password supplied
account {
URL: https://example.com
Username: [email protected]
Provider: Ping
MFA: Auto
SkipVerify: false
AmazonWebservicesURN: urn:amazon:webservices
SessionDuration: 3600
Profile: myaccount
}
Configuration saved for IDP account: default
Then to login using this account.
saml2aws login
You can also add named accounts, below is an example where I am setting up an account under the wolfeidau alias, again just follow the prompts.
saml2aws configure -a wolfeidau
You can also configure the account alias without prompts.
saml2aws configure -a wolfeidau --idp-provider KeyCloak --username [email protected] \
--url https://keycloak.wolfe.id.au/auth/realms/master/protocol/saml/clients/amazon-aws --skip-prompt
Then your ready to use saml2aws.
Log into a service (without MFA).
$ saml2aws login
Using IDP Account default to access Ping https://id.example.com
To use saved password just hit enter.
Username [[email protected]]:
Password: ************
Authenticating as [email protected] ...
Selected role: arn:aws:iam::123123123123:role/AWS-Admin-CloudOPSNonProd
Requesting AWS credentials using SAML assertion
Saving credentials
Logged in as: arn:aws:sts::123123123123:assumed-role/AWS-Admin-CloudOPSNonProd/[email protected]
Your new access key pair has been stored in the AWS configuration
Note that it will expire at 2016-09-19 15:59:49 1000 AEST
To use this credential, call the AWS CLI with the --profile option (e.g. aws --profile saml ec2 describe-instances).
Log into a service (with MFA).
$ saml2aws login
Using IDP Account default to access Ping https://id.example.com
To use saved password just hit enter.
Username [[email protected]]:
Password: ************
Authenticating as [email protected] ...
Enter passcode: 123456
Selected role: arn:aws:iam::123123123123:role/AWS-Admin-CloudOPSNonProd
Requesting AWS credentials using SAML assertion
Saving credentials
Logged in as: arn:aws:sts::123123123123:assumed-role/AWS-Admin-CloudOPSNonProd/[email protected]
Your new access key pair has been stored in the AWS configuration
Note that it will expire at 2016-09-19 15:59:49 1000 AEST
To use this credential, call the AWS CLI with the --profile option (e.g. aws --profile saml ec2 describe-instances --region us-east-1).
To build this software on osx clone to the repo to $GOPATH/src/github.com/versent/saml2aws and ensure you have $GOPATH/bin in your $PATH.
make deps
Install the binary to $GOPATH/bin.
make install
Then to test the software just run.
make test
The exec sub command will export the following environment variables.
- AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
- AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
- AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
- AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN
- EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN
- AWS_PROFILE
- AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE
Note: That profile environment variables enable you to use exec with a script or command which requires an explicit profile.
This tool would not be possible without some great opensource libraries.
- goquery html querying
- etree xpath selector
- kingpin command line flags
- aws-sdk-go AWS Go SDK
- go-ini INI file parser
- go-ntlmssp NTLM/Negotiate authentication
Install github-release.
go get github.com/buildkite/github-release
To release run.
make release
There are two levels of debugging, first emits debug information and the URL / Method / Status line of requests.
saml2aws login --verbose
The second emits the content of requests and responses, this includes authentication related information so don't copy and paste it into chat or tickets!
DUMP_CONTENT=true saml2aws login --verbose
This code is Copyright (c) 2018 Versent and released under the MIT license. All rights not explicitly granted in the MIT license are reserved. See the included LICENSE.md file for more details.