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Ryan Wold edited this page Sep 25, 2019 · 3 revisions

Touchpoints leverages Login.gov for authentication. This page outlines how the environments relate, how the integration works, and notes on Development.

How Touchpoints environments relate to Login.gov environments

  • Touchpoints Production - Login.gov Production
  • Touchpoints Demo - Login.gov Integration
  • Touchpoints Staging - Login.gov Integration
  • Touchpoints Development - Login.gov local instance - identity_idp

How the integration works

The Touchpoints Rails application uses Omniauth's Login.gov integration to enable openID oAuth integration.

When logging in, Touchpoints redirects the user to Login.gov, where MFA is enforced for successful authentication, then the user is redirected back to Touchpoints.

On the initial login, the user will be prompted to authorize the Touchpoints application, and after approval, the user is redirected to Touchpoints.

On subsequent logins, the user will be redirected directly to Touchpoints, and see a flash message indicating "Successful Auth from Login.gov."

Once authenticated, Touchpoints is responsible for expiring user sessions. Touchpoints expires user sessions after 15 minutes of inactivity.

Testing and Development with Login.gov

Dependencies

Notes on Login.gov
  • if you get a username not found when creating the upaya databases, run createdb
  • install Node 8 with brew install node@8 and put it in your path.
  • install Yarn with npm install -g yarn
  • then run bundle and the make setup steps outlined by identity-idp

Generate Keys

Run openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -x509 -keyout touchpoints-env.pem -out touchpoints-env.crt to generate keys. This will generate a .crt and a .pem file.

  • Copy the contents of touchpoints-env.pem to the env variable LOGIN_GOV_PRIVATE_KEY when running Touchpoints
  • Copy the contents of touchpoints-env.crt to login.gov's app, if using the web, or in the login.gov service_providers.yml configuration file, if developing locally.
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