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layout: default
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title: Access Control
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parent: Configuration
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nav_order: 1
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---
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# Access Control
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## Policies
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With **Authelia** you can define a list of rules that are going to be evaluated in
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sequential order when authorization is delegated to Authelia.
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The first matching rule of the list defines the policy applied to the resource, if
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no rule matches the resource a customizable default policy is applied.
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### deny
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This is the policy applied by default, and is what we recommend as the default policy for all installs. Its effect
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is literally to deny the user access to the resource. Additionally you can use this policy to conditionally deny
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access in desired situations. Examples include denying access to an API that has no authentication mechanism built in.
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### bypass
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This policy skips all authentication and allows anyone to use the resource. This policy is not available with a rule
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that includes a [subject](#Subjects) restriction because the minimum authentication level required to obtain information
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about the subject is [one_factor](#one_factor).
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### one_factor
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This policy requires the user at minimum complete 1FA successfully (username and password). This means if they have
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performed 2FA then they will be allowed to access the resource.
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### two_factor
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This policy requires the user to complete 2FA successfully. This is currently the highest level of authentication
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policy available.
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## Default Policy
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The default policy is the policy applied when no other rule matches. It is recommended that this is configured to
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[deny](#deny) for security reasons. Sites which you do not wish to secure with Authelia should not be configured to
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perform authentication with Authelia at all.
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See [Policies](#policies) for more information.
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## Network Aliases
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The main networks section defines a list of network aliases, where the name matches a list of networks. These names can
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be used in any [rule](#rules) instead of a literal network. This makes it easier to define a group of networks multiple
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times.
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You can combine both literal networks and these aliases inside the [networks](#networks) section of a rule. See this
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section for more details.
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## Rules
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A rule defines two things:
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* the matching criteria of the request presented to the reverse proxy
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* the policy applied when all criteria match.
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The criteria are:
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* domain: domain or list of domains targeted by the request.
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* resources: pattern or list of patterns that the path should match.
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* subject: the user or group of users to define the policy for.
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* networks: the network addresses, ranges (CIDR notation) or groups from where the request originates.
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* methods: the http methods used in the request.
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A rule is matched when all criteria of the rule match. Rules are evaluated in sequential order, and this is
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particularly **important** for bypass rules. Bypass rules should generally appear near the top of the rules list.
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### Policy
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A policy represents the level of authentication the user needs to pass before
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being authorized to request the resource.
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See [Policies](#policies) for more information.
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### Domains
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The domains defined in rules must obviously be either a subdomain of the domain
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protected by Authelia or the protected domain itself. In order to match multiple
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subdomains, the wildcard matcher character `*.` can be used as prefix of the domain.
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For instance, to define a rule for all subdomains of *example.com*, one would use
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`*.example.com` in the rule. A single rule can define multiple domains for matching.
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These domains can be either listed in YAML-short form `["example1.com", "example2.com"]`
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or in YAML long-form as dashed list.
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Domain prefixes can also be dynamically match users or groups. For example you can have a
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specific policy adjustment if the user or group matches the subdomain. For
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example `{user}.example.com` or `{group}.example.com` check the users name or
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groups against the subdomain.
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### Resources
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A rule can define multiple regular expressions for matching the path of the resource
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similar to the list of domains. If any one of them matches, the resource criteria of
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the rule matches.
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Note that regular expressions can be used to match a given path. However, they do not match
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the query parameters in the URL, only the path.
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You might also face some escaping issues preventing Authelia to start. Please make sure that
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when you are using regular expressions, you enclose them between quotes. It's optional but
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it will likely save you a lot of debugging time.
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### Subjects
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A subject is a representation of a user or a group of user for who the rule should apply.
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For a user with unique identifier `john`, the subject should be `user:john` and for a group
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uniquely identified by `developers`, the subject should be `group:developers`. Similar to resources
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and domains you can define multiple subjects in a single rule.
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If you want a combination of subjects to be matched at once using a logical `AND`, you can
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specify a nested list of subjects like `- ["group:developers", "group:admins"]`.
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In summary, the first list level of subjects are evaluated using a logical `OR`, whereas the
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second level by a logical `AND`. The last example below reads as: the group is `dev` AND the
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username is `john` OR the group is `admins`.
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#### Combining subjects and the bypass policy
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A subject cannot be combined with the `bypass` policy since the minimum authentication level to identify a subject is
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`one_factor`. Combining the `one_factor` policy with a subject is effectively the same as setting the policy to `bypass`
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in the past. We have taken an opinionated stance on preventing this configuration as it could result in problematic
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security scenarios with badly thought out configurations and cannot see a likely configuration scenario that would
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require users to do this. If you have a scenario in mind please open an
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[issue](https://github.com/authelia/authelia/issues/new) on GitHub.
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### Networks
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A list of network addresses, ranges (CIDR notation) or groups can be specified in a rule in order to apply different
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policies when requests originate from different networks. This list can contain both literal definitions of networks
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and [network aliases](#network-aliases).
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Main use cases for this rule option is to adjust the security requirements of a resource based on the location of
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the user. For example lets say a resource should be exposed both on the Internet and from an
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authenticated VPN for instance. Passing a second factor a first time to get access to the VPN and
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a second time to get access to the application can sometimes be cumbersome if the endpoint is not
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considered overly sensitive.
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An additional situation where this may be useful is if there is a specific network you wish to deny access
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or require a higher level of authentication for; like a public machine network vs a company device network, or a
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BYOD network.
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Even if Authelia provides this flexibility, you might prefer a higher level of security and avoid
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this option entirely. You and only you can define your security policy and it's up to you to
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configure Authelia accordingly.
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### Methods
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A list of HTTP request methods to apply the rule to. Valid values are GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE,
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CONNECT, OPTIONS, and TRACE. Additional information about HTTP request methods can be found on the
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[MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods).
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It's important to note this policy type is primarily intended for use when you wish to bypass authentication for
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a specific request method. This is because there are several key limitations in what is possible to accomplish
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without Authelia being a reverse proxy server. This rule type is discouraged unless you really know what you're
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doing or you wish to setup a rule to bypass CORS preflight requests by bypassing for the OPTIONS method.
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For example, if you require authentication only for write events (POST, PATCH, DELETE, PUT), when a user who is not
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currently authenticated tries to do one of these actions, they will be redirected to Authelia. Authelia will decide
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what level is required for authentication, and then after the user authenticates it will redirect them to the original
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URL where Authelia decided they needed to authenticate. So if the endpoint they are redirected to originally had
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data sent as part of the request, this data is completely lost. Further if the endpoint expects the data or doesn't allow
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GET request types, the user may be presented with an error leading to a bad user experience.
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## Complete example
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Here is a complete example of complex access control list that can be defined in Authelia.
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```yaml
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access_control:
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default_policy: deny
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networks:
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- name: internal
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networks:
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- 10.10.0.0/16
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- 192.168.2.0/24
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- name: VPN
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networks: 10.9.0.0/16
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rules:
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- domain: public.example.com
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policy: bypass
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- domain: "*.example.com"
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policy: bypass
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methods:
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- OPTIONS
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- domain: secure.example.com
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policy: one_factor
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networks:
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- internal
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- VPN
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- 192.168.1.0/24
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- 10.0.0.1
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- domain:
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- secure.example.com
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- private.example.com
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policy: two_factor
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- domain: singlefactor.example.com
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policy: one_factor
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- domain: "mx2.mail.example.com"
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subject: "group:admins"
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policy: deny
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- domain: "*.example.com"
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subject:
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- "group:admins"
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- "group:moderators"
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policy: two_factor
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- domain: dev.example.com
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resources:
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- "^/groups/dev/.*$"
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subject: "group:dev"
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policy: two_factor
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- domain: dev.example.com
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resources:
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- "^/users/john/.*$"
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subject:
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- ["group:dev", "user:john"]
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- "group:admins"
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policy: two_factor
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- domain: "{user}.example.com"
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policy: bypass
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```
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