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Know which authentication methods to use for your hybrid cloud

January 16, 2019
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The different options within IBM Cloud bear diverse requirements to the
authentication of users. This article explains the various possibilities
on how IBM Cloud users are managed and authenticated. If you are using a
dedicated or local cloud, then this article is for you.

Types
of IBM Cloud environments

Before we cover the different authentication methods, know which
environment best suits your application. There are two deployment
methods
that are available in IBM Cloud:

  1. IBM Cloud
    Public
    provides more than 130 unique services,
    including offerings like Weather.com, and millions of running
    applications, containers, servers, and more. Developers can start
    running their applications on IBM Cloud right away.
  2. IBM Cloud
    Dedicated
    provides enterprises with their own
    cloud environment with physically isolated hardware in a data center.
    A single tenant and provisioned on a combination of bare metal and
    virtual machines, this IBM Cloud environment is created for a single
    customer.

These different methods within IBM Cloud bear diverse requirements to the
management of users. We explain the various possibilities on how you can
manage and authenticate users.

Supported authentication methods

IBMid

Availability: Public and Dedicated

An IBMid provides access to several IBM applications, service trials,
communities, support, online purchasing, and more. An IBMid is managed by
the owner of the IBMid and its properties, including profile information
and password, both of which are stored on IBM servers. Password management
(changing a password or retrieving a new password if the old one is
forgotten) is done through IBM pages. The password policy for IBMids must
follow certain restrictions, which are described here.

IBMid with
SAML federation

Availability: Public and Dedicated

IBMid also provides support for IBM customers and partners to incorporate
IBMid authentication to their organizations’ SAML identity provider
through IBMid federation. This support allows an organization’s SAML
identity provider to handle all of the users who are leveraging IBM web
applications and cloud services. The organization handles all
password-related tasks and the authentication of its users. With IBMid
federation, a company can use its own login page and security controls to
secure access to IBM Cloud apps or IBM services.

For details on IBMid federation, the prerequisites, and the adoption
process, refer to the IBMid Enterprise
Federation Adoption Guide
.

Clients and authentication methods

Authentication for the
browser-based IBM Cloud client

The IBM Cloud console is a browser-based application. For authenticating a
user in IBM Cloud, the OAuth 2.0 protocol is used. This means that the IBM
Cloud Authentication component issues an OAuth 2.0 token containing the
user’s identity to the IBM Cloud Console—independent on the
selected authentication method.

Figure 1. General authentication flow for the
browser-based IBM Cloud client

UI authentication flow

UI authentication flow

In case of IBMid or IBMid with SAML federation, the IBM Cloud
authentication component redirects the user’s browser to another server
and retrieves the identity of the user from the response of that server.

Authentication
for command line and native applications

Widely known native applications that leverage IBM Cloud authentication
are:

All applications, including the above, are not based on a browser
interaction to authenticate to IBM Cloud and share these common
characteristics:

  • Prompting for credentials: These applications show an own dialog to
    enter the user name and password. Be aware that you have to trust the
    source of your application, as you are providing your credentials. A
    malware version of this application can capture your credentials.
  • Authentication validation: These applications send the user name and
    password directly to the IBM Cloud authentication component with the
    OAuth 2.0 “password grant” method.

The IBM Cloud authentication component will send the user name and password
to the back-end authentication server, if possible. This works for IBMid
without federation, but not for IBMid with SAML federation. The underlying
authentication protocol does not support a compatible authentication
mechanism.

To allow those clients to authenticate with IBM Cloud (and with those
configurations), you can use your web browser to get a “one-time passcode”
to log in with those applications. This login requires support for this
interaction type by the native application. The following flow diagram
shows the sequence to successfully log in for those environments:

Figure 2. Authentication flow with one-time
password

one-time passcode authentication

one-time passcode authentication

Summary

To summarize, we provide characteristics for each of the four different
authentication methods in one table.

Table 1. Characteristics of the different authentication
methods
IBMid IBMid with
federated users
Availability
IBM Cloud Public X X
IBM Cloud Dedicated X X
Password management and
policy
IBM X
Customer X
Application types
supported
Browser-based X X
CLI/native with
credentials
X
CLI/native with one-time
passcode
X X
Enabled for customer-provided two-factor
authentication
X
Authentication to IBM Cloud Public without
re-login
X X

Appendix

Required information for IBMid/IBMid with federated users

IBMid is active in IBM Cloud Public by default and is automatically used
for IBM Cloud Dedicated without providing any further details.

Customers who want to federate their SAML Identity Provider with IBMid need
to follow this
process.

The steps in the federation process are independent of the configuration of
the Dedicated or Local instance and can be executed before or after the
IBM Cloud environment is configured for the customer.


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