Configure OpenSearch Dashboards to use OTDS OAuth

This article documents how to configure OpenSearch Dashboards to use OTDS OAuth.

📘 Configure OpenSearch Dashboards to use OTDS OAuth

1. Edit the file opensearch_dashboards located at <OpenSearch Dashboards Home>\config\opensearch_dashboards.yml and add the following to the bottom of the file and fill in the following details.

   1. client_id: the name of the OAuth client from OTDS

   2. client_secret: the secret generated by OTDS when the OAuth client was saved.

   3. base_redirect_url: the url to the opensearch dashboards instance (e.g: https://lab-opensearch-01.lab.shinydocs.local:5601)

   4. openid_connect_url: the url to the OTDS server with /otdsws/.well-known/openid-configuration on the end. (e.g: https://lab-opensearch-01.lab.shinydocs.local:8443/otdsws/.well-known/openid-configuration)

      CODE

      # uncomment to enable multi auth support of openid and basic auth (internal database)
      #opensearch_security.auth.type: ["basicauth","openid"]
      #opensearch_security.auth.multiple_auth_enabled: true
      opensearch_security.auth.type: ["openid"]
      opensearch_security.auth.multiple_auth_enabled: false
      opensearch_security.openid.client_id: <clientname from OTDS>
      opensearch_security.openid.scope: openid
      opensearch_security.openid.client_secret: <client secret from OTDS>
      opensearch_security.openid.base_redirect_url: <fqdn to open search>
      opensearch_security.openid.connect_url: <fqdn to otds>/otdsws/.well-known/openid-configuration

2. Restart OpenSearch Dashboards for the settings to take effect.

3. Try to login to opensearch by navigating to the url of open search. You should be shown an OTDS login screen.

   

4. provide OTDS login credentials and you should be logged in:

   

📘 Role Management (Optional)

If you need to manage user roles, you will need to be able to login as a user with admin rights in OpenSearch Dashboards. This can be accomplished a couple of ways, but the easiest is to enable mutli-auth within opensearch dashboards. The code snippet above has commented out lines that allow multi-auth to be enabled and to login as the opensearch admin user.

1. Once logged in, you can navigate Security → Roles section.

   

2. Click on a Role you want to grant access.

   

3. Click on the Mapped Users

   

4. Click on Manage Mapping

   

5. You can add users to the list (either from the internal database, or type in a name that matches a user coming from OTDS)

6. Click Map to save the changes. The next time the user logs in, if there name matches the mapping in the role, they will be granted the role.

7. Once logged in as the user, you can check if the mapping worked by selecting the user icon in the top right corner and selecting View roles and identities.