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# Authentication Plugins
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Kubernetes uses client certificates, tokens, or http basic auth to authenticate users for API calls.
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Client certificate authentication is enabled by passing the `--client_ca_file=SOMEFILE`
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option to apiserver. The referenced file must contain one or more certificates authorities
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to use to validate client certificates presented to the apiserver. If a client certificate
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is presented and verified, the common name of the subject is used as the user name for the
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request.
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Token authentication is enabled by passing the `--token_auth_file=SOMEFILE` option
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to apiserver. Currently, tokens last indefinitely, and the token list cannot
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be changed without restarting apiserver. We plan in the future for tokens to
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be short-lived, and to be generated as needed rather than stored in a file.
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The token file format is implemented in `plugin/pkg/auth/authenticator/token/tokenfile/...`
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and is a csv file with 3 columns: token, user name, user uid.
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When using token authentication from an http client the apiserver expects an `Authorization`
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header with a value of `Bearer SOMETOKEN`.
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Basic authentication is enabled by passing the `--basic_auth_file=SOMEFILE`
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option to apiserver. Currently, the basic auth credentials last indefinitely,
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and the password cannot be changed without restarting apiserver. Note that basic
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authentication is currently supported for convenience while we finish making the
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more secure modes described above easier to use.
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The basic auth file format is implemented in `plugin/pkg/auth/authenticator/password/passwordfile/...`
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and is a csv file with 3 columns: password, user name, user id.
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When using basic authentication from an http client the apiserver expects an `Authorization` header
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with a value of `Basic BASE64ENCODEDUSER:PASSWORD`.
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2014-10-06 23:11:04 +00:00
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## Plugin Development
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We plan for the Kubernetes API server to issue tokens
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after the user has been (re)authenticated by a *bedrock* authentication
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provider external to Kubernetes. We plan to make it easy to develop modules
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that interface between kubernetes and a bedrock authentication provider (e.g.
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github.com, google.com, enterprise directory, kerberos, etc.)
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