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# External authentication
## Overview
The authproxy connector returns identities based on authentication which your
front-end web server performs.
The connector does not support refresh tokens or groups at this point.
## Configuration
The following is an example config file that can be used by the external
connector to authenticate a user.
```yaml
connectors:
- type: authproxy
id: myBasicAuth
name: HTTP Basic Auth
```
The authproxy connector assumes that you configured your front-end web server
such that it performs authentication for the `/dex/callback/myBasicAuth`
location and provides the result in the X-Remote-User HTTP header. The following
configuration will work for Apache 2.4.10+:
```
<Location /dex/callback/myBasicAuth>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "db.debian.org webPassword"
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile "/etc/apache2/debian-web-pw.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
# Defense in depth: clear the Authorization header so that
# Debian Web Passwords never even reach dex.
RequestHeader unset Authorization
# Requires Apache 2.4.10+
RequestHeader set X-Remote-User expr=%{REMOTE_USER}@debian.org
ProxyPass "http://localhost:5556/dex/callback/myBasicAuth"
ProxyPassReverse "http://localhost:5556/dex/callback/myBasicAuth"
</Location>
```
## Full Apache2 setup
After installing your Linux distributions Apache2 package, place the following
virtual host configuration in e.g. `/etc/apache2/sites-available/sso.conf`:
```
<VirtualHost sso.example.net>
ServerName sso.example.net
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<Location /dex/>
ProxyPass "http://localhost:5556/dex/"
ProxyPassReverse "http://localhost:5556/dex/"
</Location>
<Location /dex/callback/myBasicAuth>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "db.debian.org webPassword"
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile "/etc/apache2/debian-web-pw.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
# Defense in depth: clear the Authorization header so that
# Debian Web Passwords never even reach dex.
RequestHeader unset Authorization
# Requires Apache 2.4.10+
RequestHeader set X-Remote-User expr=%{REMOTE_USER}@debian.org
ProxyPass "http://localhost:5556/dex/callback/myBasicAuth"
ProxyPassReverse "http://localhost:5556/dex/callback/myBasicAuth"
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
```
Then, enable it using `a2ensite sso.conf`, followed by a restart of Apache2.