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One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions 8.0 LTS - Administration Guide

Preface Introduction The concepts of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
The philosophy of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Policies Credential Stores Plugin framework Indexing Supported protocols and client applications Modes of operation Connecting to a server through One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Archive and backup concepts Maximizing the scope of auditing IPv6 in One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) SSH host keys Authenticating clients using public-key authentication in SSH The gateway authentication process Four-eyes authorization Network interfaces High Availability support in One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Versions and releases of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Accessing and configuring One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
Cloud deployment considerations The Welcome Wizard and the first login Basic settings
Supported web browsers The structure of the web interface Network settings Configuring date and time System logging, SNMP and e-mail alerts Configuring system monitoring on SPS Data and configuration backups Archiving Cleaning up audit data Using plugins Forwarding data to third-party systems Starling integration
User management and access control
Login settings Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) users locally Setting password policies for local users Managing local user groups Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) users from an LDAP database Handling user names in User Principal Name (UPN) format Authenticating users to a RADIUS server Authenticating users with X.509 certificates Authenticating users with SAML2 Managing user rights and user groups Creating rules for restricting access to search audit data Displaying the privileges of users and user groups Listing and searching configuration changes
Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
Controlling One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS): reboot, shutdown Managing One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) clusters Managing a High Availability One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) cluster Upgrading One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Managing the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) license Accessing the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) console Sealed mode Out-of-band management of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Managing the certificates used on One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
General connection settings HTTP-specific settings ICA-specific settings MSSQL-specific settings RDP-specific settings SSH-specific settings Using Sudo with SPS Telnet-specific settings VMware Horizon View connections VNC-specific settings Indexing audit trails Using the Sessions interface Advanced authentication and authorization techniques Reports The One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) REST API One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) scenarios Troubleshooting One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS)
Network troubleshooting Gathering data about system problems Viewing logs on One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Changing log verbosity level of One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Collecting logs and system information for error reporting Collecting logs and system information of the boot process for error reporting Support hotfixes Status history and statistics Troubleshooting a One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) cluster Understanding One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) RAID status Restoring One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) configuration and data VNC is not working with TLS Configuring the IPMI from the BIOS after losing IPMI password Incomplete TSA response received
Using SPS with SPP Configuring external devices Using SCP with agent-forwarding Security checklist for configuring One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions (SPS) Jumplists for in-product help Configuring SPS to use an LDAP backend Glossary

Identity Provider metadata

To authenticate users securely, SPS needs to know many technical details about the Identity Provider (IdP). The standard way of representing this information is SAML metadata, which is an XML file. You must obtain this file from your IdP and upload it to SPS.

The XML file must contain a single IdP entity. If you want to allow logins to SPS from multiple IdPs, you must create additional login methods with different metadata files, see Authenticating users with SAML2 login method. Optionally, the IdP entity element can be wrapped into an EntitiesDescriptor element.

Service Provider metadata

SPS provides Service Provider (SP) metadata at the following location: 

https://<ADDRESS-OF-YOUR-SPS>/sts/saml2/sp-metadata.xml
This file is accessible also for unauthenticated users since it only contains public information about the SAML2 SP configuration.

NOTE: Many Identity Providers (IdPs) do not consume SP metadata directly, therefore you might need to configure your IdP manually. This guide uses the terms that are defined in the SAML 2.0 standard, which may differ from how the actual configuration parameters are called by your IdP implementation. For example, depending on your IdP implementation, the SP Entity ID may be referred to as Audience or Audience URI.

Entity ID

The entity ID of SPS is an opaque string, which is generated automatically, for example:

https://example.com/sts/saml2/1278910176319e703186a8

This is a technical identifier of your SP, which should be unique in your federation, but is not meant to be visible by users. When needed, you can customize this string using the SPS REST API, see Configuring SPS login methods in the One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions REST API Reference Guide.

Signing and encryption keys

SPS SP has an automatically generated private key and a corresponding self-signed certificate, which are used for the following purposes:

  • sign the SAML2 authentication request sent to the IdP,

  • decrypt the assertion in the IdP's response when it is encrypted (encryption is not required),

  • sign the metadata file, to prove the possession of the private key.

When needed, you can change the private key and the corresponding certificate using the SPS REST API.

Assertion Consumer Service URLs

Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL is a parameter in the SAML2 authentication request, to which the IdP should redirect the user back after completing the authentication. To prevent request forging, most IdPs validate that the ACS specified in the authentication request match any of the preconfigured ACS values for the SP.

Since SPS is accessible at multiple addresses, there can be several ACS URLs. The URL is a string made up from three parts:

  • the fixed string https://

  • the configured host name or the IP address of SPS with an optional port number. If the port number is specified, it must match the port number used in the URL bar of the browser.

  • the fixed string sts/saml2/acs/post

All ACS URLs support the HTTP POST binding.

NOTE: When you configure your SP, you must include all host names in the list of ACS URLs where SAML2 login is allowed. If the users attempt to log in to SPS using an alternative host name or IP address in the URL bar, the login will fail. The host name might contain a port number, but in this case, you must enter the port number into the URL bar of the browser too.

Since a managed SPS cluster appears as a single SP entity for IdPs, you must enter all host names (or IP addresses) of all managed SPS hosts into the central configuration. For example, if a host is represented by three different hostnames, such as 10.12.231.241, example.com, or user.example.com:8081, you must enter all three hostnames pertaining to that host to make SAML2 login method available for users. You must also enter the hostnames of the central configuration.

User identifiers

In SAML, the IdP can provide the user's long-term identifier in two ways:

  • using a NameID, or

  • using an attribute.

If the NameID format of the assertion is any of the following, then the user identifier will be obtained from the NameID value:

  • urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress

  • urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent

  • urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:X509SubjectName

  • urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:WindowsDomainQualifiedName

If the assertion has a different NameID format, then one of the following user attributes should contain the user identifier value:

  • subjectId

  • pairwiseId

  • eduPersonUniqueId

  • eduPersonPrincipalName

  • upn

  • primarySid

  • uid

  • eduPersonOrcid

  • email

  • emailAdress

  • mail

The attribute names above can be expressed in various standard attribute name formats, such as urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic or urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri.

Group membership

If the IdP provides the user's groups in attribute values, then SPS evaluates the permissions assigned to these groups, therefore user authorization is performed based on the assertion only. SPS supports the following attributes for groups:

  • eduPersonEntitlement

  • isMemberOf

  • group

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