headscale/docs/oidc.md

Configuring Headscale to use OIDC authentication

In order to authenticate users through a centralized solution one must enable the OIDC integration.

Known limitations:

• No dynamic ACL support
• OIDC groups cannot be used in ACLs

Basic configuration

In your config.yaml, customize this to your liking:

oidc:
  # Block further startup until the OIDC provider is healthy and available
  only_start_if_oidc_is_available: true
  # Specified by your OIDC provider
  issuer: "https://your-oidc.issuer.com/path"
  # Specified/generated by your OIDC provider
  client_id: "your-oidc-client-id"
  client_secret: "your-oidc-client-secret"
  # alternatively, set `client_secret_path` to read the secret from the file.
  # It resolves environment variables, making integration to systemd's
  # `LoadCredential` straightforward:
  #client_secret_path: "${CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY}/oidc_client_secret"

  # Customize the scopes used in the OIDC flow, defaults to "openid", "profile" and "email" and add custom query
  # parameters to the Authorize Endpoint request. Scopes default to "openid", "profile" and "email".
  scope: ["openid", "profile", "email", "custom"]
  # Optional: Passed on to the browser login request – used to tweak behaviour for the OIDC provider
  extra_params:
    domain_hint: example.com

  # Optional: List allowed principal domains and/or users. If an authenticated user's domain is not in this list,
  # the authentication request will be rejected.
  allowed_domains:
    - example.com
  # Optional. Note that groups from Keycloak have a leading '/'.
  allowed_groups:
    - /headscale
  # Optional.
  allowed_users:
    - alice@example.com

  # If `strip_email_domain` is set to `true`, the domain part of the username email address will be removed.
  # This will transform `first-name.last-name@example.com` to the namespace `first-name.last-name`
  # If `strip_email_domain` is set to `false` the domain part will NOT be removed resulting to the following
  # namespace: `first-name.last-name.example.com`
  strip_email_domain: true

Azure AD example

In order to integrate Headscale with Azure Active Directory, we'll need to provision an App Registration with the correct scopes and redirect URI. Here with Terraform:

resource "azuread_application" "headscale" {
  display_name = "Headscale"

  sign_in_audience = "AzureADMyOrg"
  fallback_public_client_enabled = false

  required_resource_access {
    // Microsoft Graph
    resource_app_id = "00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000"

    resource_access {
      // scope: profile
      id   = "14dad69e-099b-42c9-810b-d002981feec1"
      type = "Scope"
    }
    resource_access {
      // scope: openid
      id   = "37f7f235-527c-4136-accd-4a02d197296e"
      type = "Scope"
    }
    resource_access {
      // scope: email
      id   = "64a6cdd6-aab1-4aaf-94b8-3cc8405e90d0"
      type = "Scope"
    }
  }
  web {
    # Points at your running Headscale instance
    redirect_uris = ["https://headscale.example.com/oidc/callback"]

    implicit_grant {
      access_token_issuance_enabled = false
      id_token_issuance_enabled = true
    }
  }

  group_membership_claims = ["SecurityGroup"]
  optional_claims {
    # Expose group memberships
    id_token {
      name = "groups"
    }
  }
}

resource "azuread_application_password" "headscale-application-secret" {
  display_name          = "Headscale Server"
  application_object_id = azuread_application.headscale.object_id
}

resource "azuread_service_principal" "headscale" {
  application_id = azuread_application.headscale.application_id
}

resource "azuread_service_principal_password" "headscale" {
  service_principal_id = azuread_service_principal.headscale.id
  end_date_relative    = "44640h"
}

output "headscale_client_id" {
  value = azuread_application.headscale.application_id
}

output "headscale_client_secret" {
  value = azuread_application_password.headscale-application-secret.value
}

And in your Headscale config.yaml:

oidc:
  issuer: "https://login.microsoftonline.com/<tenant-UUID>/v2.0"
  client_id: "<client-id-from-terraform>"
  client_secret: "<client-secret-from-terraform>"

  # Optional: add "groups"
  scope: ["openid", "profile", "email"]
  extra_params:
    # Use your own domain, associated with Azure AD
    domain_hint: example.com
    # Optional: Force the Azure AD account picker
    prompt: select_account