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 creds to an aws profile named "saml"
- Identity Provider
- ADFS (2.x or 3.x)
- PingFederate + PingId
- Okta + (Duo, SMS, TOTP)
- KeyCloak + (TOTP)
- 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 only permits session tokens being issued with a duration of up to 3600 seconds (1 hour), this is constrained by the STS AssumeRoleWithSAML API call and
DurationSecondsfield. - 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
Configure an empty default profile with your region of choice, note the credentials will be overwritten when you first login and are supplied to unsure ~/.aws/credentials file is created.
$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: test
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: test
Default region name [None]: us-west-2
Default output format [None]:
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-i, --provider=PROVIDER This flag it is obsolete see https://github.com/Versent/saml2aws#adding-idp-accounts.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="Auto" 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.
--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.
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.
--password=PASSWORD The password used to login.
-p, --profile="saml" The AWS profile to save the temporary credentials
exec [<flags>] [<command>...]
Exec the supplied command with env vars from STS token.
--password=PASSWORD The password used to login.
-p, --profile="saml" The AWS profile to save the temporary credentials
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 the provider you would like to use:
[ 0 ]: ADFS
[ 1 ]: ADFS2
[ 2 ]: JumpCloud
[ 3 ]: KeyCloak
[ 4 ]: Okta
[ 5 ]: Ping
Selection: 3
URL []: https://id.example.com/auth/realms/master/protocol/saml/clients/amazon-aws
Username []: mark@wolfe.id.au
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 mark@wolfe.id.au \
--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 [mark.wolfe@example.com]:
Password: ************
Authenticating as mark.wolfe@example.com ...
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/wolfeidau@example.com
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 [mark.wolfe@example.com]:
Password: ************
Authenticating as mark.wolfe@example.com ...
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/wolfeidau@example.com
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.
If you don't have glide installed you can install it using homebrew.
brew install glide
Then to build the software just run.
make
Install the binary to $GOPATH/bin.
make install
To release run.
make release
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
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
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.