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Harbor Proposal: Identity Aware proxy authentication mode
# Harbor Proposal: Identity Aware proxy authentication mode

Author: Sheng Jiang/shengjiang3, Eric Liu/LiuShuaiyi

Date: Oct 10, 2023
Date: Oct 30, 2023

## Abstract

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## Background

Currently, Harbor supports the OIDC protocol, however this means that Harbor
cannot be seamlessly integrated into Single Sign-On (SSO) within an organization
because Harbor must perform the code exchange for an identity token.
Currently, Harbor supports the OIDC protocol for authentication. An organization
can configure Harbor to use an OIDC identity provider to provider
authentication. However, there are some scenarios where additional support is
needed, for example:

- If SAML or LDAP is used for the identity provider.
- If more than one OIDC provider needs to be used.
- Integrating Harbor with Single Sign-On (SSO) within an organization. For
example, if the organization runs Harbor behind a reverse proxy (e.g- Istio)
that federates identity providers (e.g- Dex).

## Proposal

Add another authentication option, letting the identity provider authenticate
and issue an identity token while Harbor assumes the role of an application that
consumes the identity token. Harbor would act as an OIDC token verifier. The
goal is to allow Harbor to plug in to any upstream OIDC identity provider
allowing an SSO credential to authenticate with Harbor.
goal is to allow Harbor to plug in to an upstream OIDC identity proxy allowing
an SSO credential to authenticate with Harbor.

This opens up the use case where an identity proxy (such as Dex) can be
configured to support multiple identity providers and pass on an identity token
that is used by Harbor.

Alternatively, Harbor could be integrated as a proxied application running
behind NGINX. NGINX can be configured to provide SSO by acting as the relying
party to an OIDC identity provider. As a result, the identity token passed by
NGINX could also be used as the identity of the user inside of Harbor.

### Key terms

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