OpenID Connect Authenticate API
editOpenID Connect Authenticate API
editSubmits the response to an oAuth 2.0 authentication request for consumption from Elasticsearch. Upon successful validation, Elasticsearch will respond with an Elasticsearch internal Access Token and Refresh Token that can be subsequently used for authentication. This API endpoint basically exchanges successful OpenID Connect Authentication responses for Elasticsearch access and refresh tokens to be used for authentication.
Elasticsearch exposes all the necessary OpenID Connect related functionality via the OpenID Connect APIs. These APIs are used internally by Kibana in order to provide OpenID Connect based authentication, but can also be used by other, custom web applications or other clients. See also OpenID Connect Prepare Authentication API and OpenID Connect Logout API
Request
editPOST /_security/oidc/authenticate
Request Body
edit-
redirect_uri -
The URL to which the OpenID Connect Provider redirected the User Agent in response to an authentication request, after a
successful authentication. This URL is expected to be provided as-is (URL encoded), taken from the body of the response
or as the value of a
Locationheader in the response from the OpenID Connect Provider. -
state -
String value used to maintain state between the authentication request and the response. This value needs to be the same
as the one that was provided to the call to
/_security/oidc/prepareearlier, or the one that was generated by Elasticsearch and included in the response to that call. -
nonce -
String value used to associate a Client session with an ID Token, and to mitigate replay attacks. This value needs to be
the same as the one that was provided to the call to
/_security/oidc/prepareearlier, or the one that was generated by Elasticsearch and included in the response to that call.
Examples
editThe following example request exchanges the response that was returned from the OpenID Connect Provider after a successful authentication, for an Elasticsearch access token and refresh token to be used in subsequent requests. This example is from an authentication that uses the authorization code grant flow.
POST /_security/oidc/authenticate
{
"redirect_uri" : "https://oidc-kibana.elastic.co:5603/api/security/v1/oidc?code=jtI3Ntt8v3_XvcLzCFGq&state=4dbrihtIAt3wBTwo6DxK-vdk-sSyDBV8Yf0AjdkdT5I",
"state" : "4dbrihtIAt3wBTwo6DxK-vdk-sSyDBV8Yf0AjdkdT5I",
"nonce" : "WaBPH0KqPVdG5HHdSxPRjfoZbXMCicm5v1OiAj0DUFM"
}
The following example output contains the access token that was generated in response, the amount of time (in seconds) that the token expires in, the type, and the refresh token:
{
"access_token" : "dGhpcyBpcyBub3QgYSByZWFsIHRva2VuIGJ1dCBpdCBpcyBvbmx5IHRlc3QgZGF0YS4gZG8gbm90IHRyeSB0byByZWFkIHRva2VuIQ==",
"type" : "Bearer",
"expires_in" : 1200,
"refresh_token": "vLBPvmAB6KvwvJZr27cS"
}