Configure LDAP authentication in InfluxDB Enterprise

InfluxDB Enterprise can be configured to query a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP)-compatible directory service for determining user permissions and to synchronize this directory service into InfluxDB so that the remote directory service does not need to be queried for each request.

Requirements

To configure InfluxDB Enterprise to support LDAP, the following requirements must be met:

• All users are managed in the remote LDAP service.

Configure LDAP for an InfluxDB Enterprise cluster

To use LDAP with an InfluxDB Enterprise cluster, you need to make the following changes to your data node and meta node configurations.

Configure the InfluxDB Enterprise data nodes

To enable LDAP support on your data nodes, make the following changes to the InfluxDB Enterprise configuration:

• Provide an HTTP Basic Authentication header. See Authentication and authorization in InfluxDB for details on using HTTP Basic Authentication with InfluxDB.
• Provide a username and password as HTTP query parameters
  • u: username
  • p: password
• Enable HTTP authentication
  • Set the [http] auth-enabled configuration setting, or corresponding environment variable INFLUXDB_HTTP_AUTH_ENABLED, to true. Default is false.
• Configure the HTTP shared secret to validate requests using JSON web tokens (JWT) and sign each HTTP payload with the secret and username.
  • Set the [http] configuration setting for shared-secret, or the corresponding environment variable INFLUXDB_HTTP_SHARED_SECRET. Default value is "".

Configure the InfluxDB Enterprise meta nodes

To enable LDAP support in InfluxDB Enterprise, make the following configuration settings on your meta nodes:

• Provide an HTTP Basic Authentication header. See Authentication and authorization in InfluxDB for details on using HTTP Basic Authentication with InfluxDB.
• Provide a username and password as HTTP query parameters
  • u: username
  • p: password
• Configure the meta node META shared secret to validate requests using JSON web tokens (JWT) and sign each HTTP payloads with the secret and username. - Set the [meta] configuration setting meta-shared-secret, or the corresponding environment variable INFLUXDB_META_SHARED_SECRET to "<shared-secret>".
• Set the [meta] configuration setting meta.ldap-allowed, or the corresponding environment variable INFLUXDB_META_LDAP_ALLOWED, to true on all meta nodes in your cluster.
  • If using to true on all meta nodes.
• If authentication is enabled on meta nodes, then the data nodes must be configured for:
  • INFLUXDB_META_META_AUTH_ENABLED environment variable, or [http] configuration setting meta-auth-enabled, is set to true. Default value is false. This value must be the same value as the meta node’s meta.auth-enabled configuration.
    • INFLUXDB_META_META_INTERNAL_SHARED_SECRET, or the corresponding [meta] configuration setting meta-internal-shared-secret, is set to true. Default value is false. This value must be the same value as the meta node’s meta.internal-shared-secret.

Configure the LDAP configuration file

To create your LDAP configuration file, generate a sample configuration using the following command.

influxd-ctl ldap sample-config

Save this file and edit it as needed for your LDAP server.

Verify the LDAP authentication

To verify your LDAP configuration and see what happens as you authenticate through LDAP, run:

influxd-ctl ldap verify -ldap-config /path/to/ldap.toml

Load the LDAP configuration file

To load your LDAP configuration file, run the influxd-ctl ldap set-config command

influxd-ctl ldap set-config /path/to/ldap.toml

Sample LDAP configuration

The following is a sample configuration file that connects to a publicly available LDAP server.

A DN is the distinguished name that uniquely identifies an entry and describes its position in the directory information tree (DIT) hierarchy. The DN of an LDAP entry is similar to a file path on a file system. DNs refers to multiple DN entries.

# Sample TOML for LDAP configuration
# First, save this file and edit it for your LDAP server.
# Then test the config with: influxd-ctl ldap verify -ldap-config /path/to/ldap.toml
# Finally, upload the config to the cluster with: influxd-ctl ldap set-config /path/to/ldap.toml
#
# Note: the meta nodes must be configured with meta.ldap-allowed = true
# and the data nodes must be configured with http.auth-enabled = true

enabled = true

[[servers]]
  host = "ldap.example.com"
  port = 389

  # Credentials to use when searching for a user or group.
  bind-dn = "cn=read-only-admin,dc=example,dc=com"
  bind-password = "read-only-admin's password"

  # Base DNs to use when applying the search-filter to discover an LDAP user.
  search-base-dns = [
    "dc=example,dc=com",
  ]

  # LDAP filter to discover a user's DN.
  # %s will be replaced with the provided username.
  search-filter = "(uid=%s)"
  # On Active Directory you might use "(sAMAccountName=%s)".

  # Base DNs to use when searching for groups.
  group-search-base-dns = ["ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com"]

  # LDAP filter to identify groups that a user belongs to.
  # %s will be replaced with the user's DN.
  group-membership-search-filter = "(&(objectClass=groupOfUniqueNames)(uniqueMember=%s))"
  # On Active Directory you might use "(&(objectClass=group)(member=%s))".

  # Attribute to use to determine the "group" in the group-mappings section.
  group-attribute = "ou"
  # On Active Directory you might use "cn".

  # LDAP filter to search for groups during cache warming.
  # %s will be replaced with the "group" value in the group-mappings section.
  group-search-filter = "(&(objectClass=groupOfUniqueNames)(ou=%s))"

  # Attribute on group objects indicating membership.
  # Used during cache warming, should be same as part of the group-membership-search-filter.
  group-member-attribute = "uniqueMember"

  # Groups whose members have admin privileges on the influxdb servers.
  admin-groups = ["influx-admins"]

  # Mappings of LDAP groups to Influx roles.
  # All Influx roles need to be manually created to take effect.
  [[servers.group-mappings]]
    group = "app-developers"
    role = "app-metrics-rw"

  [[servers.group-mappings]]
    group = "web-support"
    role = "web-traffic-ro"