Symfony OIDC bundle

This bundle can be used to add OIDC support to any Symfony application. We have only tested it with SURFconext OIDC, but it should work with any OIDC provider!

Many thanks to https://github.com/jumbojett/OpenID-Connect-PHP for the implementation which this bundle uses although it has been modified to fix within an object oriented approach.

Note that this repository is automatically mirrored from our own Gitlab instance. We will accept issues and merge requests here though!

Version notes

Version 2 of this bundle only supports Symfony's new authentication manager, introduced in Symfony 5.3. As the security manager matured in Symfony 5.4, that is the first version this bundle supports. Using the new authentication manager is required for Symfony 6!

We also require the use of PHP8, as that significantly reduces the maintenance complexity.

Do you need this bundle, but you cannot enable the new authentication manager or use PHP8? Check out the v1.x branch and its documentation!

Migrate from v1.x

Take a look at UPGRADE.md!

Installation

You can add this bundle by simply requiring it with composer:

composer require drenso/symfony-oidc-bundle

If you're using Symfony Flex, your .env file should have been appended with some environment variables and a drenso_oidc.yaml file should have been created in your configuration directory!

Setup

OIDC Clients

Make sure to configure at least the default OIDC client in the drenso_oidc.yaml in your config/packages directory. This can be done using the environment variables already added to your application by Symfony flex, or by updating the configuration file. You can configure more clients, they will be available under the drenso.oidc.client.{name}, and are autowirable by using OidcClientInterface ${name}OidcClient, for example OidcClientInterface $defaultOidcClient. If the name does not match with one of the configured clients, the default client will be autowired.

Configuration example:

drenso_oidc:
    #default_client: default # The default client, will be aliased to OidcClientInterface
    clients:
        default: # The client name, each client will be aliased to its name (for example, $defaultOidcClient)
            # Required OIDC client configuration
            well_known_url: '%env(OIDC_WELL_KNOWN_URL)%'
            client_id: '%env(OIDC_CLIENT_ID)%'
            client_secret: '%env(OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET)%'

            # Extra configuration options
            #redirect_route: '/login_check'
            #custom_client_headers: []

        # Add any extra client
        #link: # Will be accessible using $linkOidcClient
            #well_known_url: '%env(LINK_WELL_KNOWN_URL)%'
            #client_id: '%env(LINK_CLIENT_ID)%'
            #client_secret: '%env(LINK_CLIENT_SECRET)%'

User provider

You will need to update your User Provider to implement the methods from the OidcUserProviderInterface. Two methods need to be implemented:

• ensureUserExists(string $userIdentifier, OidcUserData $userData): Implement this method to bootstrap a new account using the data available from the passed OidcUserData object. The identifier is a configurable property from the user data, which defaults to sub. If the account cannot be bootstrapped, authentication will be impossible as the User Provider will not be capable of retrieving the user.
• loadOidcUser(string $userIdentifier): UserInterface: Implement this method to retrieve the user based on the identifier. We use a dedicated method instead of Symfony's default loadUserByIdentifier to allow you to detect where the login is coming from, without the need of creating a dedicated user provider. If the OIDC user identifiers are unique, a forward to the loadUserByIdentifier should be sufficient.

Firewall configuration

If you are using Symfony <6, make sure to enable the new authentication manager in the security.yaml:

security:
  enable_authenticator_manager: true

Enable the oidc listener in the security.yml for your firewall:

security:
  firewalls:
    main:
      pattern: ^/
      oidc: ~

There are a couple of options available for the oidc listener.

Option	Default	Description
check_path	/login_check	Only on this path the authenticator will accept authentication. Note that this should match with the redirect configured for the OIDC client.
login_path	/login	The path to forward to when authentication is required
client	default	The configured OIDC client to use
user_identifier_property	sub	The OidcUserData property to use as unique user identifier
always_use_default_target_path	false	Used for the success handler
default_target_path	/	Used for the success handler
target_path_parameter	_target_path	Used for the success handler
use_referer	false	Used for the success handler
failure_path	null	Used for the failure handler
failure_forward	false	Used for the failure handler
failure_path_parameter	_failure_path	Used for the failure handler

You can configure them directly under the oidc listener in your firewall, for example the user_identifier_property:

security:
  firewalls:
    main:
      oidc:
        user_identifier_property: email

Start the authentication

Use the controller example below to forward a user to the OIDC service:

  /**
   * This controller forwards the user to the OIDC login
   *
   * @throws \Drenso\OidcBundle\Exception\OidcException
   */
  #[Route('/login_oidc', name: 'login_oidc')]
  #[IsGranted('PUBLIC_ACCESS')]
  public function surfconext(SessionInterface $session, OidcClientInterface $oidcClient): RedirectResponse
  {
    // Redirect to authorization @ OIDC provider
    return $oidcClient->generateAuthorizationRedirect();
  }

It is possible to supply prompt and scope parameters to the generateAuthorizationRedirect method.

That should be all!