When using IDP 2.4.4 and MCB 1.2.5 we are seeing AuthnFailed message after authenticating to one sp then switching to a new tab with an sp that forces reauth

David Langenberg davel at uchicago.edu
Thu Jul 2 12:17:29 EDT 2015


Blank page is what you should expect to see if the Javascript isn't
working.  You may want to check out browser's console logs to ensure that
is functioning.

Dave

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Ewing, Bill <BEwing at utsystem.edu> wrote:

>  We tried it out last night with the setting
>
> <input type="hidden" name="selectedmethod" value="PPT" /> I also tried
> “password”
>
>
>
> During the test before the login we would end up on a blank page where the
> context choice had shown up before logs just showed.
>
> 21:03:41.427 - DEBUG
> [edu.internet2.middleware.assurance.mcb.authn.provider.MCBLoginServlet:866]
> - Displaying velocity template of [selectcontext.vm]
>
> I could hit f5 on the page and it would continue on to the login and let
> me through.
>
>
>
> Seems like it didn’t recognize my choice of value “PPT”, or “password”. I
> guess I am  not understanding where that value needs to come from or I am
> missing something else.
>
>
>
> The previous days test when I had the selection show up the choices had 2
> username/password options the first one from the logs showed as password
> the second as PPT so that was another reason I thought to try those 2
> settings in your config.
>
> 22:10:59.356 - DEBUG
> [edu.internet2.middleware.assurance.mcb.authn.provider.MCBLoginServlet:180]
> - Selected method name = [password]
>
> 22:11:34.341 - DEBUG
> [edu.internet2.middleware.assurance.mcb.authn.provider.MCBLoginServlet:180]
> - Selected method name = [PPT]
>
>
>
> Thanks for your assistance,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> *From:* users [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] *On Behalf Of *David
> Langenberg
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 02, 2015 9:15 AM
>
> *To:* Shib Users
> *Subject:* Re: When using IDP 2.4.4 and MCB 1.2.5 we are seeing
> AuthnFailed message after authenticating to one sp then switching to a new
> tab with an sp that forces reauth
>
>
>
> That file originally shows the user all the contexts they can use to
> satisfy the request from the SP.  If an SP requires 2FA and you have
> nothing that can also satisfy 2FA, then the chooser screen won't fire.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Ewing, Bill <BEwing at utsystem.edu> wrote:
>
>  Dave,
>
> So based on your file and our context name
>
> <context
> name="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport"
> method="PPT">
>
> We could just change the method value to.
>
> <input type="hidden" name="selectedmethod" value="PPT" />  ?
>
>
>
> And one other thought going forward when we end up enabling 2fa context on
> some of our apps will  the sp requesting the 2fa auth context override the
> selected method from this file or is this file the hard set choice for all
> apps? Just wanted to know since we will only have selected shibbed apps
> that will be 2fa required. Hope that made sense.
>
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* users [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] *On Behalf Of *David
> Langenberg
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 01, 2015 9:15 AM
>
>
> *To:* Shib Users
> *Subject:* Re: When using IDP 2.4.4 and MCB 1.2.5 we are seeing
> AuthnFailed message after authenticating to one sp then switching to a new
> tab with an sp that forces reauth
>
>
>
> Here ya go.
>
>
>
> https://uchicago.box.com/s/w0oujye8d0zzfpfrolcnotx5wn5yg81i
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Ewing, Bill <BEwing at utsystem.edu> wrote:
>
>  Dave,
>
> Thanks for the response. We have only 1 option set for initial context
> which before this version got us past seeing the selection screen.
>
>
>
> <initialAuthContext requestedOnly="false">
>
>             <context
> name="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport" />
>
>     </initialAuthContext>
>
>
>
> Would you be willing to share your custom selectcontext.vm file as we’d be
> interested in trying that.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> *From:* users [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] *On Behalf Of *David
> Langenberg
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:24 PM
> *To:* Shib Users
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: When using IDP 2.4.4 and MCB 1.2.5 we are seeing
> AuthnFailed message after authenticating to one sp then switching to a new
> tab with an sp that forces reauth
>
>
>
> You can avoid the initial selection screen by setting an
> InitialAuthContext that maps to your username/password context.  In our
> implementation, we have three contexts in play for some users.  To
> eliminate the chooser screen for them, we modified our selectcontext.vm
> file to contain a bit of javascript that when window.onload() fires, it
> submits the chooser form automatically back to the IdP with our 2FA context
> pre-selected.  The JS works pretty well, though we've found it breaks users
> trying to install the Box Sync and Box Office applications on windows
> machines (for some reason the embedded browser won't run the JS).
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Ewing, Bill <BEwing at utsystem.edu> wrote:
>
>  Thanks for the response. I tried the new version this evening and while
> it did get me to the sp w/o an AuthnFailed message we did get stopped with
> an authentication selection screen where we have to select our authcontext
> ie 2factor, username/password only. Is there some additional config that
> can be done to get through w/o getting the selection screen?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> *From:* users [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] *On Behalf Of *Paul
> Hethmon
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:59 PM
> *To:* Shibboleth Users
> *Subject:* Re: When using IDP 2.4.4 and MCB 1.2.5 we are seeing
> AuthnFailed message after authenticating to one sp then switching to a new
> tab with an sp that forces reauth
>
>
>
> Grab version 1.2.6 to fix that bug.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>  On Jun 30, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Ewing, Bill <BEwing at utsystem.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> Ever since we’ve started using the IDP 2.4.4 and MCB 1.2.5 in preparation
> for rolling out 2factor we have our users seeing the AuthnFailed message
> when after authenticating to one sp previously opens a new browser tab and
> visits an sp that is set to force re-authentication. One of our other
> schools with a similar setup disabled their setup for previous sessions to
> get around this issue. We were wondering if this was a known issue for this
> scenario or are we missing something with our config on the sp or idp
> possibly? I’ll paste the idp log snippet below
>
>
>
>
>
> -----
> Paul Hethmon
> Chief Software Architect
> paul.hethmon at clareitysecurity.com
>
>
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to
> users-unsubscribe at shibboleth.net
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> David Langenberg
>
> Identity & Access Management Architect
>
> The University of Chicago
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to
> users-unsubscribe at shibboleth.net
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> David Langenberg
>
> Identity & Access Management Architect
>
> The University of Chicago
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to
> users-unsubscribe at shibboleth.net
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> David Langenberg
>
> Identity & Access Management Architect
>
> The University of Chicago
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to
> users-unsubscribe at shibboleth.net
>



-- 
David Langenberg
Identity & Access Management Architect
The University of Chicago
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://shibboleth.net/pipermail/users/attachments/20150702/ebb50765/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the users mailing list