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Kimai

What is Kimai

From https://www.kimai.org/about/

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Kimai is a free & open source timetracker. It tracks work time and prints out a summary of your activities on demand. Yearly, monthly, daily, by customer, by project … Its simplicity is its strength. Due to Kimai's browser based interface it runs cross-platform, even on your mobile device.

Preparation

The following placeholders will be used:

  • kimai.company is the FQDN of the Kimai Install
  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik Install
  • admin.group is the authentik group to be made Admin in Kimai

Create an application in authentik and use the slug for later as <application-slug>.

Create a SAML provider with the following parameters:

  • ACS URL: https://kimai.company/auth/saml/acs
  • Audience: https://kimai.company/auth/saml
  • Issuer: https://authentik.company
  • Binding: Post

Under Advanced protocol settings, set a certificate for Signing Certificate.

Kimai Configuration

Paste the following block in your local.yaml file, after replacing the placeholder values from above. The file is usually located in /opt/kimai/config/packages/local.yaml.

To get the value for x509cert, go to System > Certificates, and download the public Signing Certificate. To avoid further problems, concat it into "string format" using e.g.: https://www.samltool.com/format_x509cert.php

# Optionally add this for docker debug-logging
# monolog:
# handlers:
# main:
# path: php://stderr

kimai:
saml:
activate: true
title: Login with authentik
mapping:
- {
saml: $http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress,
kimai: email,
}
- {
saml: $http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name,
kimai: alias,
}
roles:
attribute: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/Group
mapping:
# Insert your roles here (ROLE_USER is added automatically)
- { saml: admin.group, kimai: ROLE_ADMIN }
connection:
# You SAML provider
# Your authentik instance, replace https://authentik.company with your authentik URL
idp:
entityId: "https://authentik.company/"
singleSignOnService:
url: "https://authentik.company/application/saml/<application-slug>/sso/binding/redirect/"
binding: "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Redirect"
# the "single logout" feature was not yet tested, if you want to help, please let me know!
singleLogoutService:
url: "https://authentik.company/if/session-end/<application-slug>/"
binding: "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Redirect"
# Signing certificate from *Advanced protocol settings*
x509cert: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=="
# Service Provider Data that we are deploying.
# Your Kimai instance, replace https://kimai.company with your Kimai URL
sp:
entityId: "https://kimai.company/"
assertionConsumerService:
url: "https://kimai.company/auth/saml/acs"
binding: "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST"
singleLogoutService:
url: "https://kimai.company/auth/saml/logout"
binding: "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Redirect"
#privateKey: ''
# only set baseurl, if auto-detection doesn't work
baseurl: "https://kimai.company/auth/saml/"
strict: false
debug: true
security:
nameIdEncrypted: false
authnRequestsSigned: false
logoutRequestSigned: false
logoutResponseSigned: false
wantMessagesSigned: false
wantAssertionsSigned: false
wantNameIdEncrypted: false
requestedAuthnContext: true
signMetadata: false
wantXMLValidation: true
signatureAlgorithm: "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256"
digestAlgorithm: "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256"
contactPerson:
technical:
givenName: "Kimai Admin"
emailAddress: "admin@example.com"
organization:
en:
name: "Kimai"
displayname: "Kimai"
url: "https://kimai.company"

Afterwards, either rebuild the cache or restart the docker container.