Awx: [RFE] Automatically redirect to External Auth Provider Option

[jamesmarshall24]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

• UI

SUMMARY

Implement the ability to automatically redirect users to a specified external authentication provider when accessing the Tower login page rather than selecting a specific provider.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This would be for auth providers such as SAML which require a third party authentication method outside of AWX/Tower

[wenottingham]

This would only work iff:
a) there is a single external authentication source
b) there are no local users at all

I'm not sure how complex those queries are to do.

[lah-aaron]

@wenottingham
a) No, it is not uncommon to allow automatic redirection to a SSO page. Furthermore, the automatic redirection could be bypassed.
b) No, there should be a link to bypass external authentication. ie. http://example.com?loginType=local

[gforster]

This is actually a very important need for me. What can I do to help?

[walkafwalka]

@gforster, you could create a pull request.

[matburt]

This also covers the scenario where SAML/SSO authentication was already completed at some prior time and the user has a valid login. Rather than requiring the user to click the saml login button we should be able to just redirect to the dashboard via the 2-legged mechanism that would normally take them to the SSO login screen.

[ryanpetrello]

@one-t let me know if you're ready to close this.